Ask Laura Kissinger to smile, and she’ll do so happily. Broadly. Widely. Proudly displaying the metal brackets adorning her incisors, molars and canines. “I’m not embarrassed!” said Kissinger, 47, a ...

After seeing nothing but the tiniest clear plastic notches on moving teeth for the last few years, train tracks are back. A signifier of the nerdy character and a regular feature of the ‘before’ shot ...

Braces feel like a modern rite of passage, a high school accessory that arrived alongside smartphones and social media. In reality, people have been trying to straighten teeth for thousands of years, ...