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Foods to Avoid While Wearing Braces
Our goal is to provide you with a beautiful smile. This can best be accomplished if your braces stay attached to your teeth. You need to be careful about what kinds of foods you eat as some hard or sticky foods can be trouble.
For most situations, common sense will tell you what to stay away from. Hard foods can break or damage wires and brackets. Sticky foods can get caught between brackets and wires. Sugary foods cause tooth decay and related problems. Chewing on hard objects such as pencils, pens, or ice can also break or damage your braces.
EXAMPLES OF HARD FOODS TO AVOID:
- Ice
- Popcorn (hard kernels)
- Hard candies (peppermints, Life Savers and Jolly Ranchers)
- Whole carrots, apples and pears (cut into small pieces)
- Corn-on-the-cob (cut off of the cob)
- Cough drops
- Pretzels
- Nuts
- Ribs/Chicken on the bone
- Beef Jerky
- Pizza crust
- Chewy bread
- All types of nuts
EXAMPLES OF STICKY FOODS TO AVOID:
- Caramels and taffy
- Sugar Daddies
- Tootsie Rolls
- Gummy bears
- Now and Laters
- Skittles and chewy Sweettarts
- Airheads and Starburst
- Snickers
- All types of gum (including Freedent)
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