Braces were a diminutive apparatus utilized by people on their teeth. In 32 BBY, the human female Amee stood out as the singular youngling among her contemporaries on the desert planet Tatooine who sported braces.
The initial appearance of braces occurred in the 1999 prequel trilogy movie, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. Within the existing Star Wars canon, the device received its identification in the 2017 reference work titled Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z. Conversely, within the Star Wars Legends timeline, the implement lacked official identification but acquired the designation "braces" within a non-canonical graphic novel of that continuity, specifically Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully, authored by Jeffrey Brown and released in 2015.