Published by editor on 10 Dec 2010
Food to Avoid While Wearing Braces
If you’re wearing braces, your diet is definitely going to change so you don’t damage any of the brackets on your mouth. The most obvious type of food to stay away from are the hard, sticky ones like gum, chocolate bars, and candy. Besides getting stuck in between the bars, they can also cause tooth decay. Some other food to avoid eating regularly are hard steak, corn on the cob, bagels, raw hard vegetables, hard tacos, and potato chips. It might be difficult to remove them out of your diet but if you damage your braces, you are basically prolonging your treatment time. If you’d like fast braces treatment, follow a diet of softer food to make sure that your teeth and braces stay in prime condition during treatment.