What can and can't I eat with braces?

Question

Can someone give me a list, or redirect me to a website? Thanks!

Answer 1

Speaking from personal experience I'd avoid chewing gum and toffee. the first thing I did when my braces came off was go and eat lots of toffee :)

I've put some useful links you might want to look look at below in 'sources'.

Hope they help

Answer 2

I have Braces too the foods you cant eat. Avoid:
Chewy foods: bagels, hard rolls, licorice
Crunchy foods: popcorn, ice, chips.
Sticky foods: caramels, gum. I know you can chew freedent
Hard foods: nuts, candy
Foods you have to bite into: corn on the cob, apples, carrots

Chewing on hard things (for example, pens, pencils or fingernails) can damage the braces. Damaged braces will cause treatment to take longer.

Answer 3

You can eat what ever you like except sticky food such as gums, chocalate & so on. These food can stay between the braces and hard to pull them out so doctors recommand not to eat them. I had a braces too so don't worry some doctors will let you know this.

Answer 4

With braces you need to stay away from all sticky, chewy things like carmel, no chewing in ice or gum. Hope that helps a little bit.

Answer 5

From personal experience, avoid the following:
Popcorn
Nuts
Hard candy, any type of sticky candy like Snickers, etc., and gum
Celery
No corn on the cob
Slice your fruit, it's hard to eat a whole apple for example
Peanut butter can be difficult

Answer 6

dont be silly!! braces shudnt stop u from chowing down ur fav food!! i had braces and though my doc gave me a list of stuff not to eat i didnt bother.. it may be hard to eat and apple without cuttin it or chew gum but ull get used to it eventually ... but if u still wanna know then its just basically avoid sticky chewy food.. and yes please make sure u brush better that before cause plaque forms easy when u have braces..and feel free to expose ur mettalic smile.. cheers.

Answer 7

-You can't eat sticky bubble gum I think you can only chew Trident.
-corn on the cob.
-Candied Apples
-Whole Apples
-Popcorn
-Taffy

Basically anything really hard to bite into as in very hard or very chewy or very tough either substitute it or cut it up into smaller pieces.

Answer 8

u can eat anything just not gooey things like carmal, taffy, etc usually the ortho would tell u what to eat and not to just to let u know though food gets caought everytime so brush good

Answer 9

apples (have 2 be cutt up
no raw veggies lik carrots celery
sticky or chewys candy lik taffy ,gum and caramel
chips ,crunchy taco shells
no carbonated drinks and you shouldnt bite on ur pencil pen or nails

Answer 10

Avoid these kinds of foods:

-Gum
-Soft Sticky foods

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Hope it helps!