Dental Braces

Dr. Peter Wilcox of Hayes was one of the speakers at the annual meeting and educational conference of the Orthokeratology Academy of America in Chicago in April. Wilcox personally presented four lectures and shared the podium for 12 hours during the...

Orthodontic braces are used to help position and align an individual's teeth. Getting braces is something that is typically seen as a rite of childhood. But many parents are unsure as to when their children should be fitted for braces. Although many...

Within the next week, South River senior Bre Bolden should score her 1,000th career point. The slashing 5-foot-9 guard, also known for her defense, averages 18.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 6.3 steals and 3.2 assists for the Seahawks (11-2). Bolden, 17, and...

Re "Gifts shower newly elected," Nov. 22 Infuriating. Whatever illusion remains that "we the people" are truly represented by our elected officials was dealt another serious blow by this article, which reports on the intense lobbying of California's...

For September's Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, artists Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton commissioned soprano Louise Ashcroft to sing, altering pitch and volume while wearing a face mask made of algae. According to...

TAMPA -- Sandwiched between the shoe-boxy Tampa Museum of Art and busy Ashley Drive, the new Glazer Children's Museum is like a three-story, 53,000-square-foot toy chest and playhouse. In the museum's spacious new home -- it moved from Lowry Park to...

Gayle Anderson was live in Los Angeles at one of the public viewing areas set up for the space shuttle Endeavour, which landed today at Los Angeles International Airport. It will remain in a hangar at LAX until October 12th, when it will be transported...

I estimate that one-fourth of the questions parents ask me involve issues or behaviors that merit little if any concern. Some of the "problems" in question are normal to certain stages of development. Others are nothing more than little glitches that will...

An Oklahoma woman posing as a dentist performed everything from root canals to cavity fillings, and hurt dozens of people in the process, investigators said. Elizabeth Hinosa, known as Dr. Liz, worked at two different dental offices around Oklahoma City,...

A 32-year-old man had a thriving dental practice operating out of a home near Melrose Park, but Cook County sheriff's police said he lacked one important item: a medical license. Special Operations Unit officers recently began investigating a tip about...

Okay, so I haven’t been to the dentist in 5 years. My braces were removed the summer before college and I never returned, until today. I know, I am horrible. What makes it worst is that I did not have the best oral hygiene growing up. Literally,...

When Mary Carrasquillo first saw a baby wearing a helmet, she wondered, “What’s wrong with him?” Then her son, Matthew, needed one. She got a second opinion. But doctors agreed — Matthew had plagiocephaly, or head flattening,...