Dental Braces

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,...

James Hunter just got braces on his teeth. He's 15. And like so many others, he was a little self-conscious about his smile. "Yeah, it can be embarrassing having crooked teeth." But some kids are getting braces well before their teenage years. Like...

These days braces are pretty much a fact of life for many kids.  Most people think of them as having a mouth full of metal, but now a lot of braces are much less noticeable.  Children usually need braces either to straighten crooked teeth or to fix a bad...

LINCOLN HEIGHTS -- Police and family members are asking for help in locating Bree'Anna Guzman, a mother of 2 who disappeared the day after Christmas. The 22-year old was last seen around 7:30 p.m. on December 26 leaving her Humboldt Street home. Guzman’...

LINCOLN HEIGHTS, Calif. (KTLA) -- Two young women were recently murdered in the Lincoln Heights area, and now the city is offering two $50,000 rewards for the arrests of those responsible. Residents gathered together to march through the neighborhood...

A tossed-off comment from my mother several years ago, on the day my high school senior portrait was delivered to our home, still echoes when someone points a camera toward me. I'd liked my senior photo and had ordered an 8-by-10. I figured it could be...

People with a condition called "Pectus Carinatum" are getting help for the deformity they used to only be able to hide. Pectus Carinatum is caused by the abnormal growth of cartilage, which makes the breastbone protrude. It can be uncomfortable and...

Know this about Mark Turgeon: He has no reservations, absolutely none, about replacing Gary Williams, the man who resurrected Maryland basketball. If Turgeon was the type to be cowed by a challenge, he would never have tried to play point guard for...