I hate that my Mom made me get braces, for the whole duration of wearing braces, I was laughed at!
Well braces are made to align and straighten teeth and help improve dental health, so thank your mom.
That's true.. I had teeth that originally were not 'sitting' together correctly, I guess it was worth it, did you wear braces?
No, but I do no that orthos is the greek word for straight, and odont means tooth whcih explains why dentist are called ortodontics.
You're lucky.. braces were not fun.. Interestingly braces were invented over 300 years ago in France by Pierre Fauchard
You know Pierre Fauchard wrote "Le Chirugien Dentiste" which is the first  complete scientific description of dentistry,
The desire to have perfectly straight teeth can be traced back to Ancient Egypt. I bet the pharaohs smiles were great! 
It's funny to think that Ancient Egyptians were worried about their teeth in 30 BC.
Yeah haha, but unfortunately they didn't have the same technology.. They used guts from either horses or sheep to line the teeth
in developing Mediterranean maritime technology including ships and lighthouses. 
Technology in Dynastic Egypt.
Significant advances in ancient Egypt during the dynastic period include astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Their geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve the layout and ownership of farmland, which was flooded annually by the Nile river. The 3,4,5 right triangle and other rules of thumb served to represent rectilinear structures, and the post and lintel architecture of Egypt. Egypt also was a center of alchemy research for much of the western world.
Dental braces
Dental braces (also known as braces, orthodontic cases, or cases) are devices used in orthodontics that align and straighten teeth and help position them with regard to a person's bite, while also aiming to improve dental health. Braces also fix gaps. They are often used to correct underbites, as well as malocclusions, overbites, open bites, deep bites, cross bites, crooked teeth, and various other flaws of the teeth and jaw. Braces can be either cosmetic or structural. Dental braces are