Braces are a common thing for kids to get, and chances are your child’s dentist will suggest you get a consultation with an orthodontist at some point. (The American Association of Orthodontists ...

Short stuff: Health roundup Lots of kids need braces—that’s no secret. It’s also no secret that your experience at the orthodontist might conjure some not-no-comforting memories (head gear ring a bell ...

Nadia Czekajewski got braces on her teeth when she was 8. Now she's in third grade, turning 9, and "she'll be done before she begins fourth grade," said her father, Tomasz Czekajewski. "It was a wise ...

Cameron Mathison looks back on his childhood in leg braces due to a degenerative bone disease. Mathison was only 2 when he was diagnosed with Legg Calve Perthes disease, a childhood disorder where the ...

More adults are doing what they did not do as children -- get braces. Nowadays, everyone does not have to know you are wearing them. Rebecca Lewis enjoys her visits to the UNC School of Dentistry to ...

Traditional wire braces were once an adolescent rite of passage. (The colorful rubber bands! The poking wires! The ill-fated flirtations with popcorn, apples, and chewing gum!) These days, kids have ...

The Gosselin kids are no longer rocking the brace-face look! Kate Gosselin, of "Jon & Kate Plus 8” fame, posted a photo of Aaden, one of the 16-year-old sextuplets, with his recently liberated pearly ...

A group of Lancaster County artists collaborated on a project this week to help African children affected by a common birth defect. The artists were painting leather braces designed to treat clubfoot.