Movement of teeth if there are gaps

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Asked for Female, 31 Years

I came to know that teeth tend to move towards the front i.e towards the mouth and not towards the end of jaw or back wards if there are spaces in between. Is that true sir?

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Dr. Babita Sangwan

Dental Surgeon 22 yrs exp Gurgaon

Yeah it's true and is known as the mesial drifting of teeth with age. It's physiological and not pathological

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Dr. Prof. Mahendra Raj

Oral Medicine and Radiology 29 yrs exp Chennai

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Teeth shift in all directions whenever there is a space available. This drift is not correct pathologically. It happens mostly in persons who fail to keep artificial teeth after extraction or when excessive space is present in between the teeth.