Confession time
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First go 'round...gummi bears
The first time I had my braces in my mid 20'3 I was manning a company booth at a food trade show and my booth was right next to the Gummi Bear booth and they had huge bowls of samples out. I then took the next few hours for 3 days fishing them out of my braces!
9th day
My worst so far (i've only been braced for 9 days) I tried to eat a slice of salami a couple of days ago, I couldn't even bit through it so I tore it up and lolled it around in my mouth then swallowed. It got stuck in my esophagus and I had to drink a whole bottle of water for it to go down. THAT HURT! My teeth and my throat hurt for about half an hour.
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cosmicgirl
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I have had everything on the "no no list" with the exception of taffy. I avoid all foods with the word taffy in it because normally I have a problem getting it out of my teeth that I don't even want to attempt it in braces. But so far so good, no broken brackets, no archwires pulled out because of it.
The only thing on my no-no list that I have eaten is potato chips. I LOVE them. All kinds of chips, corn chips and puffs. Other than that I have changed my eating habits completely because it is hard for me to bite down. I have been braced about a month and a half. I have lost quite a bit of weight (10 lbs now). I have lost my joy of eating. I try to eat everything I ate before, but I either don't want to put up with the time it would take for me clean or its painful. Oh well. The price I'm paying for a beautiful smile.
4 Wisdom teeth extracted
4 First bicuspids extracted
1 Trans-palatal arch
4 springs
Silver ligatures
Damon brackets
And a partidge in a pear tree!
4 First bicuspids extracted
1 Trans-palatal arch
4 springs
Silver ligatures
Damon brackets
And a partidge in a pear tree!
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cosmicgirl
- Posts: 219
- Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:52 pm
- Location: London
I feel your pain KianaFran!
I was exactly the same and thought I'd never chew properly ever again. I couldn't bear food to be in my mouth for long and was swallowing things almost whole as the effort was too great - NOT good for the digestive system!
I also found that I couldn't nibble things while I was preparing meals - left over bits of grated cheese, carrot, a biscuit here, a piece of chocolate there - it was amazing how the weight dropped off!
But as I said, I rediscovered chewing gum and I'm back to hoovering up everything in sight!
The sensitivity will go - eventually. It feels like forever, but you will start to feel better soon. I hope so.
I was exactly the same and thought I'd never chew properly ever again. I couldn't bear food to be in my mouth for long and was swallowing things almost whole as the effort was too great - NOT good for the digestive system!
I also found that I couldn't nibble things while I was preparing meals - left over bits of grated cheese, carrot, a biscuit here, a piece of chocolate there - it was amazing how the weight dropped off!
But as I said, I rediscovered chewing gum and I'm back to hoovering up everything in sight!
The sensitivity will go - eventually. It feels like forever, but you will start to feel better soon. I hope so.
Hmm...I guess the only bad thing for me is thin crust pizza - I've broken the same bracket twice eating that. Popcorn's been no problem and I don't bite into anything because as soon as I do, there's loads more crud in these metal hinderances than if I'd cut stuff up into bite-size pieces. On my personal no-no list though is anything too hard and crunchy; chips, nuts, whatever. If I do eat them, I chew slowly and don't eat many, otherwise my jaw gets too tired.
