Your Diet
While you are wearing braces:
Eating proper healthy foods, is important. Hard foods, sticky foods and soft sweet foods can bend your orthodontic wires, break your brackets or cause tooth decay.
DO NOT EAT:
Hard Foods:
Hard Bread
Ice
Popcorn
Sugar Cane
Peanut Brittle
Nuts
Hard Candy
Pizza Crust
Chicken Bones
Banana Chips
Whole Fruits and Vegetables – should be cut into small pieces and eaten on back teeth
Sticky Foods:
Caramel
Starburst
Taffy
Dumplings
Soft Sweet Foods:
Chewing Gum
Gummy Bears
Chewy Candies