No matter what type of snack you eat, eat them one at a time rather than a handful all at once. Not only is it more polite, it might save you from a mishap with your braces, like a bent wire or broken bracket. When you have braces, hard bread, pizza crust, and crunchy chips can get stuck between the wires and bend them. To prevent this from happening, there are certain types of chips to avoid during your braces treatment. These include:. While you have braces, you will have to make some significant adjustments to your diet during your treatment.
Foods to avoid to protect your braces include:. The risks of eating crunchy, sticky, and otherwise not recommended foods when you have braces are two-fold. First, there is the primary risk of getting a piece of crunchy, hard, or sticky food stuck between the wires of your braces.
With enough pressure or an overly enthusiastic bite , the brackets can actually break off your teeth. This would require an emergency repair by your orthodontist.
Any hard or crunchy chips are a threat to the integrity of your braces and your teeth. Chips that must be avoided if you have braces include fried potato chips, Cheetos or similar fried snacks, tortilla chips, Cheez-its or similar hard, baked crackers, and kettle-cooked chips. What you can do instead is find healthy and safe snack replacements. The most common and healthy snacking options for people with braces include sliced fruit, such as apples, bananas, watermelon, or pears.
Some of the notorious foods that can damage your braces include popcorn, nuts, and trail mix, hard candies, carrot sticks, celery sticks, gummy candies, hard pretzels, mints, and bagels, etc. You must never attempt to deviate from the diet instructions of your dentist. Eating risky or forbidden foods with braces will damage your braces and teeth.
The situation could be worse if you put too much pressure on the brackets. The brackets may break off creating a state of emergency. The stuck food bits are sometimes not accessible even through the floss. Hot chips such as Flaming Hot Cheetos, Takis and Sabritones are the number one food that you can not eat with braces. It is! You can still eat pizza when you have braces, but it all comes down to the type of pizza.
The best way to go is soft-crust pizza. Tougher crusts or thin crusts can damage your braces and get stuck between the wires, brackets and your teeth. Instead of tough meats such as steak or even breaded meats like fried chicken, replace with tender meats: soft turkey, beef or ham stew, or baked chicken. You can also take advantage of hard-boiled, scrambled, or fried eggs—these are easy to eat with braces.
Apples Biting into an apple can pose huge problems for people with braces. If you want to enjoy an apple, cut it up first. Beef Jerky Unfortunately your braces will not stand a chance against this rubbery, chewy treat. Wait until after your braces to enjoy beef jerky again. After reading this list, it may seem like there are no foods that you can eat.
That is not the case. Most people with braces enjoy a varied diet with few restrictions.
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