What To eat and What Not To Eat
Living with dental braces can post a lot of challenges for the wearer. Where diet is concerned, you may have to modify the food and drink line-up you have been used to taking. There are foods, and your manner of eating them, that can break the wires and dislodge the brackets. You will have to make a quick trip to your orthodontist for the broken pieces can hurt your soft tissues or you might even swallow some pieces. It is important to prevent injuries that might extend treatment time.
There are certain foods you should avoid or else change the way you eat them. For example, hard fruits and vegetables, like whole apples and pears, corn on the cob and raw carrots, can damage your appliance. If you must, chop them into small pieces or scrape the kernels off the cob but do not eat them as they are. Avoid nuts – like almonds and peanuts – that are too hard to chew; that goes also with popcorn, croutons, tortilla chips, taco shells, hard pizza crust and pretzels. Also avoid hard cookies, crackers, hard chocolate; cut up these before you eat them: hard rolls, French/Italian bread, and sub sandwiches.
There are sticky candies and sticky snacks to be avoided. Taffy, caramels and gummies can cling to your teeth, wires and brackets, possibly damaging them. You may suck on hard candies like peppermints and lollipops, but not bite them. Choose candies that melt easily and that you do not have to chew. Don’t chew on gum – they can get stuck on your brackets and around wires, creating a mess difficult to clean.
So what can you eat that are safe for braces? During orthodontic treatment, you can try dairy products like pudding and soft cheeses; breads like sliced lunch read, muffins without nuts, pancakes; grains like noodles and pasta. Also have soft-cooked chicken, meatballs, lunch meats; seafood like fish without bones, tuna, salmon, crab and crab cakes. Fruits without pits like bananas, grapes, oranges, and strawberries are good choices. You can also have soft foods – mashed potatoes, yogurt, peanut butter and jelly.
See that you have a wide variety of food choices to enjoy while you are with braces. The above-mentioned choices are also ideal for children who are wearing them. These foods are also healthy for your body, hence, the better are the results of your orthodontic treatment. A proper diet provides essential nutrients to bones and tissues undergoing significant change during braces treatment.
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