Braces food and drinks?!
Question: I have braces. I will be going with my family on vacation this summer and what treats are ok and to avoid? Is it ok to drink Gatorade? I know that soda isn't good. However some restaurants only have soda like McDonald, should I just drink the soda? Is cotton candy ok? I know I can't eat popcorn.
Answers: I have braces. I will be going with my family on vacation this summer and what treats are ok and to avoid? Is it ok to drink Gatorade? I know that soda isn't good. However some restaurants only have soda like McDonald, should I just drink the soda? Is cotton candy ok? I know I can't eat popcorn.
You can eat whatever you want and drink whatever you want. Just make sure you brush and floss afterwards. Braces really help in getting cavities. So make sure you floss! And brush along your gumlines. They have these things called floss threaders they are a thin plastic and what you do is thread your floss through the hole and stick the floss threader inbetween your teeth (above the wire between your gum) and floss up under your gums. Then take it out and do it to the next tooth and so on and so forth. But just be careful in what you bite into. You dont want to bust a bracket off on vacation (if you do take off the rubber band and bracket on that tooth so you wont aspirate it.
Suger will mess up your braces
soda is fine for braces trust me i had braces for about 8 months already and soda is perfectly fine. popcorn ur right gets stuck in between ur braces. french fries are fine. stay away from chewy products(air heads, sour patch kids, starburst, etc).
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You can eat anything but chewy or hard candy. Soda isnt good for people period but it is still okay to drink. Gatorade is perfectly fine, but rinse your mouth after drinking sugary drinks.
mcdonalds has orange juice as well. i used to drink it when i had braces. . .iate pretty much everything i normally did except raw carrots and . . well i don't drink soda so that wasn't a problem. i drank coffee. i ate cucumbers, i cant remember if i ate cotton candy but i probably would have. i think i ate popcorn too. but like a week after i had them tightend was when i ate that stuff cause once you get them tightened it hurts to eat hard stuff for like a day or two and the wire has to get adjusted to your mouth within that week. i also chewed gum and ate oreos. i was just a normal kid i guess.