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| WM. DOMEYER, D.D.S.,M.S. ORTHODONTICS For Our Patients: The "Brace-Watcher's Diet" (Foods to Avoid) | |||||||||
| Our goal is to provide you with a beautiful smile. This can only be accomplished if the braces stay attached to your teeth. We do not want to interfere with your nutritional intake, but we do ask that you watch the types of foods you eat. Some types of foods are capable of breaking your bands or brackets, bending your wires, and breaking the cement under your bands or brackets. All these things prolong treatment time. A careful patient can eat a nutritionally balanced diet and do no harm to his braces. We hope that you will strive to be this type of patient. The foods listed below are the ones that we have found to be the most common causes of loose bands, brackets and broken appliances. | |||||||||
| 1. ice (no crunching, please) 2. hard edges of pizza 3. crisp french fries 4. hard corn chips (Doritos) 5. peanuts (all nuts) 6. popcorn (hard kernels) 7. Lifesavers 8. peppermint sticks 9. carrots &. apples (may be eaten if cut into small pieces) 10. Corn-on-the-cob (may be eaten if sliced off the cob) II. ribs (meat may be eaten if sliced off the bone) | 1. caramels 2. taffy 3. gum (not even Freedent) 4. "now or later" candy 5. "Marathon" bars 6. "Milky Way" bars 7. "Slow Poke" suckers 8. "Sugar Daddy" candy Sweet Foods Although they may not cause damage to your appliances, care should be taken to brush your teeth immediately after eating very sweet foods. If you cannot brush, at least rinse your mouth out with clear water after eating cake, pie, candy, cookies and sweet drinks (colas, lemonade) | ||||||||
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