Dr. Craig Fischer has made a habit of wearing a retainer every night to ensure his glowing smile. The 68-year-old Pittsfield-based orthodontist already has straight teeth -- and he wants to keep them ...

have developed a sensor-packed dental retainer that people with high-level spinal cord injuries can manipulate with their tongue to manoeuvre an electric wheelchair. The latest prototype of the Tongue ...

Prosthetics are almost always used to correct bodily malfunctions. Glasses, dentures, hearing aids, pacemakers–they all fix something in our bodies that’s either broken or not working at 100%. But the ...

Insufficient cleaning could allow build-up of microbes on orthodontic retainers, researchers have found. Researchers looked at the types of microbes which live on retainers. This study found ...

A fixed lower jaw dental retainer completely avulsed the canine tooth of a 26-year-old man in the U.K., according to a case report published June 24 in the American Journal of Orthodontics and ...

Crooked teeth, gaps, or other dental concerns may require braces for proper alignment. Braces consist of brackets attached to the teeth, connected by wires or sometimes elastic bands. They not only ...