Golden State forward Draymond Green said Thursday he will be wearing braces for a "couple weeks" after being elbowed by Oklahoma City forward Jerami Grant during the Warriors' 125-105 loss Tuesday to ...

Ankle sprains are one of the most common reasons to visit an emergency department. Ankle injuries are the most common injury sustained by basketball players accounting for 54% of all injuries. Seventy ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adult women wearing braces. Oliver’s fashion-forward approach to straightening her smile doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Singer and ...

Courtesy of Samantha M., Jenn E., Erika B. You may associate braces with the (painfully) awkward middle school experience, but they’re not just for preteens. Adults, too, can reap the teeth-shifting ...

Once confined to adolescent years, braces have undergone a remarkable transformation in social perception. As more adults opt for orthodontic treatment, these dental devices have evolved beyond their ...

If you ever wore braces, you'd probably rather forget that time forever and destroy all traces of those metal-encrusted teeth. Braces, often required to straighten teeth or repair thumb damage, ...

Getting braces is a rite of passage for many children. The American Association of Orthodontics estimates more than 3.5 million children ages 8 to 17 wear braces in a given year. While some children ...

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 ...

MOORHEAD - When adult orthodontic patients ask Dr. Matthew Ames if they're too old for braces, he replies, "Well, do you smile?" Ames, of Harvey Orthodontics here, says he gets that question a lot, ...