Lol, I escaped the deadly fate of braces!
My dentist (at the time) thought I was getting a bit of an overbite, and might have to get braces (when my mom was a girl, she had a really bad overbite, and such big buckteeth, kids would call her "Beaver", and she had braces too), but when the orthodontist saw me, he asked me if I sat with my jaw resting on my fist (like my mouth right on top of my knuckles), and I told him yes, because that's how I sat when I was bored, and being in public school at the time, and being bored a lot, I sat like that a lot. He told me to stop doing that, and my teeth would be alright, and that I didn't get braces!
Lol, and my friend who had them was SO disappointed too!