When the Midline Diastema Is Not Characteristic of the "Ugly Duckling" Stage

• Egile Nagusiak: Orlando Motohiro Tanaka (Egilea), Alessandro Yuske Kusano Morino (Egilea), Oscar Fernando Machuca (Egilea), Neblyssa Ágatha Schneider (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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This case report presents the interceptive orthodontic treatment of a 9-year, 5-month-old boy with class I malocclusion, a 9.0-mm maxillary midline diastema, and deviation from the midline. The treatment goals were to decrease the magnitude of the diastema and to simulate the characteristics of the...