New Survey: Real Braces In TV and Movies

Not all braces you see in the movies or television are real.  Many of them are fake acting props. For example, the braces you saw on Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch and on Jodie Foster's character in Freaky Friday are actually fake props. But occasionally actors wearing real braces, who are actually undergoing real orthodontic treatment, make their way into TV and movies. Often these braces become a feature of that character. 

  

Here are a few examples of real braces on TV and in movies. The actors wearing their tingrins were actually undergoing ortho treatment, and their real metalmouths were worked into their performances.

Mike Lookinland wore real braces when he played Bobby in The Brady Bunch.

Anthony Michael Hall wore real braces in Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science.

 

Kim Fields wore real braces when she played Tootie on Facts of Life.

Sean Astin wore real braces when he was in Goonies and White Water Summer.

Zack Ward wore real braces when he played the bully Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story. ('80s bracket-style braces in a movie set in the banded-braces '40s!)

Ronnie and Keith McCawley wore real braces in their single movie appearance as twins Ronnie and Donnie Bloom in Rushmore.

OK so who looked the coolest in their real braces??
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This survey is now closed. Check out the results here.

Personal Braces Story: "Smile and have fun!"

Here's a new reader contribution from the Tell Your Braces Story survey, this time from another anonymous reader:

Have You ever had braces? Yes

BEST AND WORST: What is the best thing about wearing braces? What is the worst thing about wearing braces? 

Best: seeing my teeth straighten

Worst: flossing

FIRST REACTIONS: What first reactions to first seeing someone in braces have you experienced? (You could be the one in braces, the one who reacted, or a bystander.) 

Smiling widely at them to reveal my own braces

MOST INTENSE TREATMENT: What is the most intense braces treatment you have seen? (Intensity could involve amount of metal, use of unique appliances, length of treatment, etc.) 

A friend had her braces for five years (roughly age 26-31) with a palatal expander, lots of elastics, and orthognathic surgery

COOL BRACES EXPERIENCE: Have you had any cool, funny, interesting, or memorable experience involving your braces? What was it? 

I work in a group of people with several brace-faces currently. It's fun to compare notes about our braces 

ADVICE FOR OTHER BRACES WEARERS: What advice would you give to someone just getting braces, or thinking about getting braces? 

Smile and have fun! 

Yo Its Time For Braces!!!!

Check it out: Disney Raps Braces!  This is the Bracey Girrlz from the 2011 show So Random.

Braces Morning Ritual

Cleaning your braces in the morning. Does this look familiar?  Actually, this did kind of resemble me when I had braces. I was pretty intense in trying to keep them clean.  The braces looked like mine too, in a way.

Personal Braces Story: " its not always fun but worth it"

Here's another anonymous reader with his braces story.

Have You ever had braces? Yes

BEST AND WORST: What is the best thing about wearing braces? What is the worst thing about wearing braces? 

best - fixing your teeth.

worst - the pressure.

FIRST REACTIONS: What first reactions to first seeing someone in braces have you experienced? (You could be the one in braces, the one who reacted, or a bystander.)

inquisitive.

MOST INTENSE TREATMENT: What is the most intense braces treatment you have seen? (Intensity could involve amount of metal, use of unique appliances, length of treatment, etc.)

6 years, a friend.

COOL BRACES EXPERIENCE: Have you had any cool, funny, interesting, or memorable experience involving your braces? What was it?

being the first to get braces in school and seeing all my friends get the after me.

ADVICE FOR OTHER BRACES WEARERS: What advice would you give to someone just getting braces, or thinking about getting braces?

do it. its not always fun but worth it.   

Personal Braces Story: "Never try to hide them"

Here is another contributor, Laura from Denmark, providing a interesting account of her braces experience:

Have You ever had braces?  Yes

BEST AND WORST: What is the best thing about wearing braces? What is the worst thing about wearing braces? 

The best thing about wearing Braces is, that you can see your teeth getting straight. The worst thing is eating with them or smiling an not knowing, wether there might be still food in them.

FIRST REACTIONS: What first reactions to first seeing someone in braces have you experienced? (You could be the one in braces, the one who reacted, or a bystander.) 

"Foureyes has got a metalmouth" said one of the Boys in my Class, when I had my Braces new. (I was wearing Glasses)

MOST INTENSE TREATMENT: What is the most intense braces treatment you have seen? (Intensity could involve amount of metal, use of unique appliances, length of treatment, etc.) 

Don't know. The Most intense about Braces is, when they are new and you are not yet used to them.

COOL BRACES EXPERIENCE: Have you had any cool, funny, interesting, or memorable experience involving your braces? What was it? 

When I was at the Summer Camp in sixth grade, I was in love with a Boy (wich was of course a secret. But when we talked, he confessed, that he is getting Braces too and asked me a lot about how it is to wear them. When we met again he had already his Braces on and he was so cute with them. I wanted to kiss him imidiately. And we did not get stuck with them (as in bad movies).

ADVICE FOR OTHER BRACES WEARERS: What advice would you give to someone just getting braces, or thinking about getting braces? 

Never try to hide them, because sooner or later, people will anyway realise, that you have them on.

Personal Braces Story: "its not as bad as you think it is"

Here is another personal braces story from one of my anonymous readers:


Have You ever had braces? Yes

BEST AND WORST: What is the best thing about wearing braces? What is the worst thing about wearing braces? 

The worst things are definitely, when there was food in the Braces and you couldn't get it out. Best thing is, that you could see your teeth getting straighter.

FIRST REACTIONS: What first reactions to first seeing someone in braces have you experienced? (You could be the one in braces, the one who reacted, or a bystander.) 

My small nephew allways wanted to touch them, when we visited my uncles family

MOST INTENSE TREATMENT: What is the most intense braces treatment you have seen? (Intensity could involve amount of metal, use of unique appliances, length of treatment, etc.) 

I don't know, may be, when I had to wear elastics or actually the first days with them

COOL BRACES EXPERIENCE: Have you had any cool, funny, interesting, or memorable experience involving your braces? What was it? 

the one with my nephew.

ADVICE FOR OTHER BRACES WEARERS: What advice would you give to someone just getting braces, or thinking about getting braces? 

its not as bad, as you think it is and you will get used to it.