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Dietary Guidelines for Orthodontic Patients

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Adopting healthy oral hygiene habits

Adopting healthy oral hygiene habits

When undergoing an orthodontic treatment, the orthodontist takes care of the technical part of the treatment; he or she is often perceived as the only player involved in the process. Yet, your involvement is as important to ensure the success of the treatment in the prescribed time frame.

Your involvement starts with adopting an impeccable oral hygiene, which is essential. Orthodontic appliances themselves do not cause caries, decalcifications or gingival diseases. However, they can contribute to them if your oral hygiene is deficient during your orthodontic treatment. With good oral hygiene, braces will not have any bad effect on your teeth. To learn more on oral hygiene during an orthodontic treatment and on tooth decay.

Apart from oral hygiene, you also need to be careful with what you eat and your dental habits. Indeed, certain foods and habits can cause your appliances to break, which may require additional visits to repair them and lead to a longer treatment. Therefore, certain basic rules are recommended to minimize these disadvantages.

 

Foods to avoid

Foods to avoid

  • When appliances are bonded to your teeth, it is important to avoid, or even eliminate, certain foods from your diet to prevent them from breaking or loosening your apliances.
  • You will also potentially need to modify or be careful with the way you chew during your orthodontic treatment to avoid breakages or damages to brackets, wires and braces components.

Hard and crunchy foods

Hard and crunchy foods

  • Hard and crunchy foods because they entail a great risk of breaking or detaching your orthodontic appliances. They must absolutely be banned from your diet during your treatment.
  • Raw vegetables (carrot, celery, radish, etc.) and whole raw fruits, such as apples and fruits that are not quite ripe. However, you can cook them until tender or eat them raw, but grated.
  • Very hard nuts, such as whole almonds, peanuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, etc. Whenever possible, you can eat them crushed or in thin slices.
  • “Jawbreakers“, cough lozenges, lollipops and other hard candies, such as Skittles and peanut M&Ms
  • Popcorn is particularly harmful: the hard and unpopped grains of corn are hard to munch and husks can get stuck under the gum and cause an infection. An infected gum will slow down tooth movement.
  • French fries and Greek fries that are small and crunchy or those that have slightly overcooked edges. You can refrain from eating those that are too small, cut the hard edges or simply cut the fries and the potatoes in small pieces before
    eating them.
  • Pretzels and hard crackers. If you suddenly crave salty foods, you can favor “normal” potato chips that are softer or let the other types of potato chips and crackers soften before chewing them.
  • Croutons in salads, unless they have softened with salad dressing.
  • Certain types of cereals can be particularly hard and crunchy when they are dry. It is then forbidden to eat them without softening them with milk or any other liquid beforehand.

 

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