orthodontic braces

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   an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

   Synonymsbracebraces

   Broaderdental appliance

Questions about orthodontic braces

What does orthodontic braces mean?

orthodontic braces means "an appliance that corrects dental irregularities".

What is another word for orthodontic braces?

Close synonyms include brace, braces. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orthodontic braces a common word?

orthodontic braces is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.