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For example, the two of us just spent a good part of a day online and on the phone submitting claims for our daughter’s orthodontia bill and some mundane prescriptions.

I didn’t know there’d be a full decade in which the same fight would recur over whose genes were responsible for three-phase orthodontia — for each of our three children.

I had adult orthodontia, but I never made that connection of, "Why don't my stupid teeth fit in my stupid mouth?"

My little brother needed orthodontia more than I did, objectively, but we could afford only one set of braces.

In the rush to fix people’s smiles, however, troublesome facts about straightening teeth were minimized or ignored — most significant, orthodontia’s astounding rate of relapse.