So you’re way beyond your middle school years... and yet: You’ve found yourself in a new set of braces. While this might not be how you pictured your adulthood unfolding, you’re now officially mature ...

Maintaining oral hygiene is essential for everyone, but it becomes especially important when wearing dental braces. Braces create small spaces and hard-to-reach areas where food particles and bacteria ...

Which toothbrush for braces is best? Getting braces can be hard enough all by itself. Don’t let yourself have a bad tooth-brushing time while you wait for them to do their job. There are plenty of ...

If you want to straighten your teeth, traditional metal braces and Invisalign are two of your options. Both treatments can improve your smile, but which approach is right for you? As a kid of the ’90s ...

Can you use an electric toothbrush with braces? We ask the experts how to maintain your daily dental routine with braces When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale ...

Braces are dental devices that use pressure and control to gradually shift and straighten your teeth. Teeth that are misaligned or crowded, teeth that have large gaps between them, and jawlines that ...

Orthodontists say that the proper time for braces varies from child to child. July 19, 2007 — -- The question of the proper age at which a child should get braces and other orthodontic work is ...

When you have braces, small fixtures called brackets are attached to your teeth. A thin metal wire called an archwire runs through these brackets. The archwire is gradually adjusted to apply force, ...