You might have seen stray wires from orthodontia in a patient's mouth, but what about in their abdomen? Physicians in Australia found a piece of an orthodontic wire in a patient's bowel a decade after ...

A 2.7-cm orthodontic wire caused appendicitis in an 11-year-old girl in California, according to a report published in the August issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. The girl, who ...

An Australian woman had an orthodontic wire removed from her small intestine 10 years after she took off her braces. The seven-centimetre piece of orthodontic wire punctured her small intestine ...

If you have braces, a thin wire called an archwire runs through brackets that are attached to your teeth. The ends of the wire may be attached to metal bands that have been placed around your back ...