The duration of wearing a brace after a fracture depends entirely on the entire fracture recovery process, and there is no strict time period to say how long it is no longer necessary. Whether the fracture is fixed by surgical treatment with steel nails or plates, or by conservative treatment with simple external fixation of the brace, you should go to the hospital every 4 weeks for a review of the fracture to see how it is healing and to determine the length of time to wear the brace. The duration of brace wear after surgical treatment is much shorter, 3-6 weeks, while conservative treatment is not as reliable as surgical treatment of the fracture, the brace wear time is 4-9 weeks, and even 15 weeks for long time. The healing time of fracture is related to many factors, such as fast healing of fracture in children, slow healing of fracture in elderly people, slow healing of fracture in chronic underlying diseases such as diabetes, etc. Therefore, the specific brace wearing time should be based on the results of the film review.