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Do Movie Characters Tell Us the Truth About Braces?
Just for fun!
Remember cosy afternoons as a kid, curling up on the sofa, cuddling your favourite soft toy and watching a PG movie? Finding Nemo? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? The Toy Story series? We cheered for the heroes; we hissed at the villains.
Characters in braces? We’ve seen chaos makers, bullies, awkward kids, and (more of this last one, please) kids like Sharon Spitz from Braceface whose braces are a superpower.
Healthy Smile Pharmacy’s here to separate braces from behaviours and prescribe some Healthy Smile Pharmacy orthodontic love for three familiar film characters.
Settle back, but don’t eat the popcorn!
“Fishy, wake up!” Do Darla’s braces equal her bad behaviour?
One: Finding Nemo’s Darla Sharman, Little Miss-Understood
Who’s Darla Sherman?
Darla’s the girl who frightens the fish. She’s, ahem, ‘overenthusiastic’ with pets. No wonder Nemo feigns belly up when he sees her!
Character flaw: Darla’s chaotic, spoilt and plays too rough.
Greatest Asset: Her zest for life. Braces don’t squash her enthusiasm.
Don’t blame the brace: Take away the bad behaviours her uncle ignores and she’s a fidgety, freckly kid with a squint that swaps between eyes who also happens to wear fixed braces and an external orthodontic appliance to correct her bite.
Brace or no brace, headgear or no headgear, she’d still be the kid who squeezes pets too hard.
Orthodontic equipment rating: It’s 9/10 for Darla. Bravo to her for wearing her orthodontic headpiece and going about her day, only extra! Just step away from the animals, Darla!
A Healthy Smile Pharmacy Prescription for Darla Sharman
1. Keep brushing!
Darla’s teeth are brilliantly clean! Maybe her dentist uncle recommended she use a VITIS Orthodontic Access Toothbrush to clean around her brackets and straddle her arch wire! She’s done her Monotip Brush work well as her gums are tip top, too!
2. Quiet the chaos with brace essentials for the impatient patient
At Healthy Smile Pharmacy, we’ll never leave Darla misunderstood or keep her waiting.
Our subscriptions deliver clinical standard VITIS Orthodontic care to your door in the Fixed Brace Daily Care Kit. With specialist medical grade orthodontic toothpaste and orthodontic mouthwash, a Monotip Brush and a range of Interprox Interdental Brushes, it’s the gold standard in caring for teeth in fixed braces.
Delivered when you need it, at 4-, 5- or 6-week intervals, the kit keeps impatient Darlas happy, and our subscriptions allow for swaps, amends or cancellation, too, in case she needs a last-minute switch-up. Now, that’s flexible!
In the end, more than Sid’s teeth straighten out!
Two: Toy Story’s Sid Phillips, brace yourself for the bully
Who’s Sid Phillips?
You remember Toy Story’s Sid Phillips, the toy torturing teen next door? With his death skull t-shirt, buzz cut and mean green eyes, he communicates his idea of toughness.
Character flaw: Picking on things smaller than him.
Greatest asset: He changes. As a garbage collector in Toy Story 3, Sid’s as straightened out as his teeth! His skull t-shirt remains, but his energy goes into being a key worker for his community.
Don’t blame the brace: Sid was a mean teen who needed to learn a lesson about kindness, braces or no braces. He’s a coward running for his mama as soon as he hears toys talk!
Orthodontic equipment rating: It’s an 6/10 for Sid. Two rows of braces and big gaps, he seems like a beginner. But Sid’s a rare example of an animated character whose teeth are undergoing early orthodontic help. Most braced characters have straight teeth in their braces. The animators show no pink gums in Sid’s mouth, and the greyness of his braces make his mouth look as dark as his torturous behaviours.
A Healthy Smile Pharmacy Prescription for Toy Story’s Sid Phillips
1. Avoid grumpiness by handling brace pain
We reckon Sid’s a brace beginner. He hasn’t learned to manage brace pain. He needs Orthodontic Wax to smooth out the sharp bits of his brace, it would help him feel less mean!
We’d also recommend some rapid healing support from the hyaluronic acid in Gengigel to soothe his inflamed gums in those early days. Sid: get the right relief at a clinical standard. We’ll hook you up!
2. For his gaps, he needs the gold standard in interdental brushes
It’s early days for Sid on his brace journey. He’s got lots of big gaps. Interprox Interdental Brushes come in a range of sizes that will accommodate shrinking gaps and spaces opening. The black bristles help reveal plaque and the white bristles will show any bleeding. He can even travel with them as they have a brush head cover. Their long handle and 90-degree brush head angle makes popping these bad boy cleaners between teeth super easy.
Who’s the boy child Willy Wonka?
Three: Wonka’s Young Willy Wonka
Warner Brothers helped us understand Willy’s boyhood love of all things sweet. He’s the brace wearing boy who turned tasting into a science and creating candy into an enterprise.
Character flaw: Shutting himself away from others.
Greatest asset: A brilliant mind for inventing: beyond candy invention, he makes the most of his orthodontic headgear to dress up as a ghost.
Don’t blame the brace: Willy’s dentist dad doesn’t teach him that you can have friends, and have fun, without eating sweets. Willy believes that sweets are the whole point of Trick or Treating, rather than being with community.
Orthodontic equipment rating: It’s a 2/10 for the film makers. Willy’s headgear belongs in a cosplay conference! While it gets our sympathy, it doesn’t help anyone’s nerves who's about to wear braces. Don’t worry – it's complete overkill. These days, even if he had to wear an external appliance, it would be evenings and overnight so at least his school hours would be headgear free.
