Leora Leavey, 17, a rising high school senior from Bethesda, Md., had her wisdom teeth removed just before Memorial Day, hoping to use the long holiday weekend to recover. X-rays showed that two ...

But teeth continue to shift as we age, so there's never a time when braces won’t work. Braces adjust teeth by putting pressure on them, and this pressure works even after bones have stopped growing.

We develop our adult teeth in childhood between the ages of six to eight after our milk teeth fall out. Most people will have a full set of 28 adult teeth between the ages of 12 and 14 .