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.