Title

Prevalence of maxillary midline diastema and its societal perception in patients at Remera health center, Rwanda

Authors

Dona Soman¹, Ramnath Elangovan^2,*, Dinesh C. Maganti², Kamikazi Rachel³, Muhoza Cedric³ & Igirubuntu John Peter³

Affiliation

¹Department of Prosthetic and Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Rwanda; ²Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; ³Department of Dental Surgery, School of Dentistry, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; *Correspondnig author

Email

Dona Soman - E-mail: donasoman@gmail.com

Ramnath Elangovan - E-mail: ramubds2@gmail.com
Dinesh C Maganti - E-mail: ciskingg@gmail.com
Kamikazi Rachel - E-mail: kamikazirachel1@gmail.com
Muhoza Cedric - E-mail: muhoced99@gmail.com
Igirubuntu John Peter - E-mail: johnpeerigirubuntu06@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received June 1, 2025; Revised June 30, 2025; Accepted June 30, 2025, Published June 30, 2025

Abstract

The prevalence of maxillary midline diastema and its societal perception among patients attending Remera health center, Rwanda is of interest. This descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study was done among patients attending Remera health center. The data collected on the prevalence of midline diastema and its societal perception was measured through SPSS software version 20 by applying descriptive analysis. To analyze the relationship between the variables, inferential statistics were adopted to analyze the relationship between variables. The study investigated the prevalence and perception of maxillary midline diastema, where 27.3% have maxillary midline diastema and 77.3% of all the patients attending Remera health center perceived maxillary midline diastema as a sign of beauty.

Keywords

Maxillary midline diastema, perception, society

Citation

Soman et al. Bioinformation 21(6): 1567-1573 (2025)

Edited by

Hiroj Bagde MDS, (PhD), PGDCR, PGDHHM, PGDL, PGDM

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.