Braces are a lot more barbaric - and awesome - than you might think. But they actually just copy the process that the rest of your bones naturally undergo! Andrea, an MIT Sloan Fellow, explains. Learn more about the related research that's happening at MIT: https://www.pinterest.com/mitk12videos/how-do-braces-work/ ---------- Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos http://k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-conditions Hosted by: Andrea Derosiers Written by: Andrea Derosiers & Elizabeth Choe Additional Scripting by: George Zaidan Content Reviewer: H. Elaine Cheong, DDS Executive Producer & Doodles: Elizabeth Choe Director: George Zaidan Camera: Adam Morrell Editor & Motion Graphics: Per Hoel Theme song: Anthony Thomas & Neil Aggarwal Special thanks: Dimensional Photonics International, Inc. Prof. Paula Hammond (https://hammondlab.mit.edu/) Prof. John Essignmann & Ellen Essignmann