#orthodontics

#orthodontics

Like landlines, Polaroid cameras and Lisa Frank designs, yet another 1980s item seems to be making a comeback: metal braces. TODAY anchors Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer discussed their own history with braces as well as the transformation of braces from geek to chic. "Back in the '80s and the '90s, Anthony Michael Hall had braces, right?" began Sheinelle on the Sep. 17 show. "And it almost signified teen awkwardness, almost like a prop. But now people are proud of them."

If you are like me, you brush your teeth-too vigorously, I'm told-with a plastic rack of plastic bristles. You use your plastic brush to lather a paste pushed from a plastic tube. When you have a cavity, you go to a dentist who might