Theo Von

Yeah, some people have to get the real, you know, they'll get the big braces, they'll get, I had a dude, they had like braces that were hooked even to his suspenders.

It seemed like it was like, this kid is, they're pulling him up and down.

That's a great point.

If you have braces on a youngish child, it's holding their teeth in one space while the rest of their face is growing.

Yeah.

This kid was very dangerous.

I remember if he sneezed, he would moon everybody.

Yeah.

So true.

Bring that up.

When did we start to put braces in the children's mouths?

It's pretty fascinating.

Thank you so much for coming today because you never think about this stuff.

But once you're saying that to me, that now you have a growing human and you have their teeth that are confined.

it almost seems baffling that you would do that.

It almost seemed, I mean, it's so restrictive.

And also the nervous conditions it must create inside of your body, the stress it must put on your gums, and then the rest of your face, your brain is right there.

The practice of using braces to straighten teeth began in the early 19th century.

French dentist Christophe Delabarre invented the first modern braces in 1819, a flat metal strip tied to teeth with thread to gradually align them.

The term braces emerged in the early 1900s, coinciding with improvements like Edward Angle's brackets and wires.