Yes. In order to avoid breaking your braces you should avoid all hard or sticky foods. Breakages can really delay your treatment by several months so to ensure your treatment progresses smoothly you need to avoid certain foods. You must avoid:
- nuts and popcorn
- hard lollies and refrigerated chocolate
- hard biscuits
- hard crusted or multigrain/ seeded breads
- muesli, muesli bars and hard cereals
- carrots and carrot sticks, raw celery
- whole apples (you can cut them into thin slices to eat)
- sucking or chewing ice, whether crushed or not
- chewing pens, pencils, fingernails
- chewing meat off the bone
- hard pizza crust
- chewing gum, bubble gum
