Can I eat Oreos with braces?

You want to avoid anything crunchy or hard, which means no nuts, potato chips, or popcorn. Instead, opt for Cheetos or Pirate Booty. Soft cookies (without nuts) are good, but avoid hard cookies like Oreos and Chips Ahoy unless you're a milk dunker. Ice cream is fine, but skip the nuts and hard candy toppings.
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Can I eat cookies with braces?

Most cookies are safe to eat when you have braces. Avoid cookies with any hard, decorative toppings or ones that have caramels in them. Sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, or any other soft cookie is fine to eat when you have braces.
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Can I drink Oreo milkshakes with braces?

Most fruits and vegetables are allowed, as long as they are soft. There are also many treats you can have. For example, you can still have ice cream, milkshakes, and cake. Just remember that treatment won't belong, and it will be worth it to have a smile and teeth of which you are proud!
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Can you eat cookies and milk with braces?

Can I Eat Hard Cookies with Braces? You may not be surprised by this entry considering that most foods with such a high sugar content prove to be dangerous for people who were metal teeth aligners. However, cookies are actually safe to eat, as long as they are not hard. Soften your cookies by dipping them in milk.
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Can I eat chewy sweets with braces?

With braces, it's best to avoid candy and sweets that are hard, sticky, gooey and chewy. This includes treats like gum, caramel, gummy bears, nuts and pretzels.
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Foods That You CANT EAT With Braces



Can you eat 100 grand with braces?

Avoid anything hard or crunchy, such as Snickers, 100 Grand Bars, and anything with nuts or toffee. Jawbreakers and Gobstoppers are also on the list of candies to avoid. Say no to anything too sticky or chewy. Taffy, Starbursts, Skittles, licorice, and other chewy candies can pull on your brackets and wires.
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Can u eat Skittles with braces?

For example, chewy treats such as M&Ms and Skittles can break the brackets of one's braces. Additionally, caramels are prone to getting stuck in your braces. Hard candies are fine to suck on but should not be bitten. Halloween candies are not made with dental health in mind.
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Are Oreos too hard for braces?

You want to avoid anything crunchy or hard, which means no nuts, potato chips, or popcorn. Instead, opt for Cheetos or Pirate Booty. Soft cookies (without nuts) are good, but avoid hard cookies like Oreos and Chips Ahoy unless you're a milk dunker.
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How strong is the braces glue?

Your first instinct may be that the glue isn't strong enough, so a few words about that. Orthodontic glue is designed to be strong enough to hold your brackets to your teeth yet weak enough to let go of your tooth in the event of a blow.
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Can u eat hot Cheetos with braces?

Flaming Hot Cheetos, Takis, Hot Fries, Hot'n Spicy chicharrones, Flaming Hot Doritos, Sabritones chips and Sabritas Chips must be avoided while you have braces on. These hot chips are hard and crunchy, so you have to bite down hard to crush them with your teeth.
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Can you eat Twix with braces?

Foods to Enjoy

Suck ice, hard candies instead of biting. Pirate's Booty popcorn, popcorn without hulls, choose chocolate and candy bars with only small amounts of carmel or small nut pieces (Snickers, Twix). Chew small pieces of SUGAR FREE GUM (Trident, Extra or Spry).
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Is dark chocolate OK for braces?

Yes, chocolate is perfectly fine for braces as long as you're eating the right kind. Any type of soft chocolate, from a chocolate bar to a peanut butter cup is going to be perfectly okay for you to eat.
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Can you eat chocolate with braces?

Can You Eat Chocolate and Sweets with Braces? Yes, you can eat some chocolates with braces, but in strict moderation and only during meal times. As a rule of thumb, it's best to go for options that are low in sugar.
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What sweets can I eat with braces?

Sweets that are approved for those who wear braces are:
  • Pudding.
  • Soft cookies.
  • Soft chocolates (no nuts or caramel)
  • Jell-O.
  • Ice cream.
  • Milkshakes.
  • Cake (soft bread, no nuts)
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Can I eat Doritos with braces?

Any type of hard and crunchy food is something you will want to avoid while wearing your braces. Chips like Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos, Takis, as well as pretzels and other hard breads are foods that can not only damage your wire, but also cause your brackets to break.
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Can you eat Kit Kats with braces?

Candy you can eat with braces

A lot of chocolate treats are perfectly safe for you to enjoy while you are in braces. Hershey's® chocolate bars, Hershey's Kisses®, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups®, Kit Kats®, York Peppermint Patties® and Three Musketeers® are all great options that will be easy on your braces.
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Do white braces turn yellow?

Due to the fact that clear removable braces can be taken out to eat and drink, these certainly don't turn yellow. If they become dirty for any reason they can be rinsed/washed quite easily.
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Do braces leave stains?

While braces usually do a great job of straightening our teeth, they can sometimes leave discoloration behind once they're removed. There are even several ways to minimize or remove the appearance of staining if it affects your teeth. Yet the best way to get rid of braces staining is to avoid it in the first place.
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Why are my braces turning yellow?

Bad Hygiene

If you don't keep up with a proper and regular oral hygiene routine then your teeth and braces are naturally going to start turning a yellowish colour. Bad oral health not only makes your teeth less white but it can also lead to medical problems such as tooth decay and gum bleeding.
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Can I have bacon with braces?

Nowadays, the ubiquitous question can you eat bacon with braces? Yes, you can eat, but it should be soft and boneless meat; otherwise, you have avoided it; there are many types of bacon you need to eat bite-size pieces and boneless as well as soft. Bacon can damage or hurt your appliances.
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Can you eat mini donuts with braces?

Avoid Sugary Food

While foods such as doughnuts, pastries, and cake are soft and easy to chew, these items contain sugar and white flour that will stick to your teeth, wires, and brackets.
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What foods should you avoid if you have braces?

Foods to avoid with braces:
  • Chewy foods — bagels, licorice.
  • Crunchy foods — popcorn, chips, ice.
  • Sticky foods — caramel candies, chewing gum.
  • Hard foods — nuts, hard candies.
  • Foods that require biting into — corn on the cob, apples, carrots.
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Can u eat a lollipop with braces?

DON'T chew hard candies. While peppermints and similar types of sweets are safe to suck on, biting them can cause serious damage. So lollipops are okay for your child with braces as long as he or she is old enough to understand that it's limited to licking. DO look for “braces-friendly” recipes.
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Can I eat marshmallows with braces?

No, you can't eat marshmallows with braces; the dentist always advises not to consume any types of sticky and hard foods and sugary foods; marshmallow sugar will increase cavities and bacteria in your mouth. Marshmallows will stick to your brackets and wire as well as your teeth and tooth.
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Can you eat Pringles with braces?

Can I eat chips with braces? Yes, you just need to select the right ones. Pringles, “baked” chips and Cheeto Puffs/Fries are great braces options for chips. Just try to remember to eat ONE CHIP AT A TIME, so that you don't accidentally break a bracket.
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