Who says braces are just for kids? More and more adults are getting them — even celebrities. Actors, professional athletes and even pop stars are putting hardware in their mouths to improve their smiles. And these high-profile ortho patients are being noticed, as well!

“These adults are successful, beautiful and total metal-mouths,” blogger Lindsay Mannering recently wrote. “And they don’t care who knows it!” Mannering, who was stressed out about an upcoming visit to the dentist, posted a slideshow of famous people with braces on The Huffington Post.

And the trend is not just for Americans, either. The British Society of Orthodontists is reporting a significant rise in the number of adults seeking orthodontic treatment.

“The British are supposedly famous for having ugly, snaggled teeth, which perhaps explains why people are seeking aesthetic improvements in greater numbers — we now spend £360m a year on cosmetic dentistry. But it can be a costly and slow process,” The British newspaper The Guardian wrote recently.

“In the U.S., braces have become almost a status symbol, because the cost of them can run to several thousand dollars. Here, they can cost from £2,000 to £8,000 or more, although if a patient’s problem is severe enough — for instance, if the bite is affected, which might involve jaw surgery, and it is not just an aesthetic issue — it can be done on the NHS,” The Guardian reported.