Can you eat 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 are donuts for braces?

Ring separators, donuts or spacers are just one of the few ways to describe rubber or elastic separators and are commonly used in orthodontics. Most patients do not have spaces between their teeth, and fitting a ring or a band would be painful.
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Can I eat pastries 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 eat cake during braces?

Fortunately, we've come up with five types of desserts that won't break your braces! No, the cake is not a lie. Cake is a great dessert for those with braces because it's so soft and fluffy. Be careful not to eat cake that has anything too sticky or chewy accompanying it, such as frosting or gummies baked in.
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What junk food can I eat with braces?

Soft pretzels, potato chips, cheese puffs

Things like string cheese, peanut butter and jelly, fruit, crackers, or pudding taste good and travel well.
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Do braces not eat list?

Foods you can't eat with braces
  • Nuts.
  • Potato chips.
  • Popcorn.
  • Crunchy veggies.
  • Hard candies (such as jolly ranchers or lollipops)
  • Gum (Sugar-free gum is okay)
  • Sticky candies (like laffy-taffy or gummy bears)
  • Corn on the cob.
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Can I eat Chick Fil A with braces?

The answer is yes, if you do it right. Given that sandwiches vary so much, you will need to make the right choices any time you make yourself a sandwich or order one while you're out. You will also need to be careful while eating a sandwich with braces so you don't end up causing damage to your braces.
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What sweets are braces friendly?

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 braces eat Oreos?

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 pizza with braces?

Can you eat pizza with braces? Yes! You certainly can, as long as you avoid crusts and toppings that are too tough and hard, sticky, or stringy, and eat in small, careful bites. Of course, it's also essential to clean your teeth and the metal wires after eating for optimum dental health.
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Can I eat cupcakes with braces?

The soft and fluffy texture of the cake with the smooth and sweet frosting can do no harm to your brackets. Just make sure you rinse your mouth afterward with water and brush your teeth as soon as you can so the sugar doesn't stay trapped in your mouth and cause cavities.
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What color is best for braces?

Choose light blue, bronze, dark purple or subdued reds and pinks to complement lighter skin tones. Choose darker colors to make your teeth appear whiter. Watch out for lighter colors that could make your teeth look more yellow. Consider colors that complement or match your eyes.
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How long after braces can I eat normally?

It's okay to eat as soon as you leave the office, but we highly suggest only eating softer foods the first few days while your mouth and teeth adjust. Stick to pasta, seedless bread, soft veggies, pudding, soup, yogurt, etc.
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What can't you have with 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 I eat burgers with braces?

You can still eat things like ice cream, brownies, cookies, cake, French fries, burger, hot dogs, and pizza (just avoid the crust), no problem.
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Can you eat donuts with spacers?

You may eat normally with the separators in, but we do recommend avoiding chewing gum and very sticky foods, like chewey/sticky candy (caramel, taffy, tootsie rolls, gummy bears, Snickers bars, and any other sticky candy), as they may make your separators fall out prematurely.
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Can you kiss if you both have braces?

It's completely fine if you're not ready for something as adventurous as kissing right away! When you feel ready, take it slow. Being gentle while kissing with braces is incredibly important for the safety of you and your partner. It's a good idea to start with closed lips.
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Can I eat Skittles with braces on?

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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What chips can I eat with braces?

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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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 I eat M&M with braces?

Candies such as M&M's are a great, braces-friendly alternative to chewy or hard candies. With a semi-hard candy shell and a soft milk chocolate interior, M&M's are one of the few types of braces-friendly candies out there that braces wearers can safely enjoy at all times!
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Can I eat Snickers with braces?

The experts at Dunn Orthodontics recommend staying away from the nuts in candy bars like SNICKERS® and instead going for soft chocolate bars like 3 Musketeers® or even Milky Ways® (if you're careful).
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Can you eat Mcnuggets with braces?

Here are some ideas of soft fast foods you can eat with braces: Pizza —avoid the crust. Brownies — no nuts. Chicken nuggets — cut these into pieces to avoid damaging your braces!
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Can I eat Pocky with braces?

there are hidden hard pieces that can get under wires and into brackets. Plus, getting all of those popcorn pieces out from between your teeth is hard enough, even when you don't have braces on your teeth. Popcorn, especially popcorn balls, are completely off limits this Halloween.
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Do braces hurt?

Braces can cause discomfort or pain while the person is wearing them. Usually, people will only feel pain or discomfort when an orthodontist first fits the braces and after regular brace tightening. They may also feel pain if part of the brace is rubbing or poking into the inside of their mouth.
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