Forget about taking big bites of anything, or wolfing down your food. The key word here is: SLOW! Stick to soft food. Eventually you'll be able to eat steak again. But for the next few weeks, lean toward soft foods. Avoid stringy foods, especially if you have a palate expander. You may love to wind your spaghetti around your fork, but for now it would be better for you to cut it into small pieces, or it will get wound around your brackets.
Also, be careful with foods that get stringy when they melt, like mozzarella cheese. Forget the nuts and seeds. These will get stuck in your brackets and drive you crazy until you finally brush and get them out. Ditto for the hulls of popcorn. Sticky foods will likely stick to your brackets and be hard to clean off.
You also want to avoid biting into anything hard that may break or pop off a bracket. Bite with the side of your mouth. It may be virtually impossible to bite into anything with your front teeth for a while. Get used to biting with your side teeth, instead. Besides, if you try to bite into a burrito with your front teeth, your front brackets will probably get plastered with tortilla.
Speaking of burritos, beware of anything with large hidden chunks of meat or vegetables, like burritos or sandwich wraps. When your smile is looking great, the braces just peel off your teeth. We want your braces to go as quickly and as comfortably as possible for a great smile and we want it to affect your life as little as possible.
Broken braces can definitely slow things down when it becomes a habit. The trick to eating with braces is to keep the pressure between your teeth and away from the braces. You can still enjoy the crunch of popcorn between your teeth — just keep the crunch away from the braces. You do that by eating a few kernels at a time — between your teeth. Too much pressure on a brace will break the glue. Even something like biting into a softer bun too quickly can peel off a brace, so go a little slower and let the bun soften up as you chew gently at first.
In these cases the glue was weakened with rougher chewing earlier and a smaller amount of pressure finished the job and the brace came loose. Foods to avoid include: Crunchy Foods — Eating crunchy foods can bend wires, knock off brackets, or loosen bands. Skip crunchy chips, nuts, pretzels, popcorn, and crunchy veggies. Hard Foods — Hard foods can hurt your teeth or damage braces.
Avoid hard candy, hard cookies, ice, raw veggies, hard rolls, and peanut brittle. Foods You Bite Into — Any food that you bite into with the front teeth can be a problem when wearing braces, loosening brackets, or bending wires. This means you need to avoid corn on the cob, whole apples or pears, ribs, and chicken wings. Chewy Foods — Chewy foods like bagels or big pieces of meat can get stuck in your brackets and prove difficult to eat.
Avoid pizza crust, bagels, large bites of chewy meat, and beef jerky. Sticky and Sugary Foods — Whether you have braces or not, sticky and sugary foods are problematic for teeth. Sticky foods can stick to braces, too. Off-limit foods include gummy bears, fruit roll-ups, caramels, taffy, and licorice. Remember to Brush and Floss During that first week — and beyond — remember to brush and floss thoroughly to remove trapped food particles.
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