Metal Mouth Message Board

Tomorrow morning I am getting braces on my top arch (finally! yay!) so tonight I want to treat myself to a nice meal! Something that I won't be able to have (or, at least, should avoid) for the next two years while I am in hardware.

So those of you already in braces, if you could take them off for one meal and have anything, what would you eat?

It's not really a meal, more of a side dish but I do crave crusty french bread with real butter on it mmm....

I find very little that I couldn't eat when I was first braced. Off course there were a few times when I decided not to eat something for fear of knocking a bracket off. My choice for a last meal...something chewy and gooey that would be hard to clean. Ribs on a bone would be a good choice along with corn on the cob.

Have fun with the process.

Remember to chew to keep the blood flowing.

Mike

iBorg wrote:I find very little that I couldn't eat when I was first braced.

Really? I was quite the opposite, I wanted to tough it out and chew stuff but there was no way on earth Two weeks in though things are getting a LOT better on that score...

My last pre-brace meal was a deep dish pizza (I'm from Chicago) and a Snickers bar.

While I was in braces, I craved caramel corn and a big juicy hamburger. I found that I had some difficulty biting into things for a while - I could chew and eat pretty much anything, but biting didn't work so well for a while. So, I could have had a hamburger and cut it up into pieces, but that wasn't what I wanted.

Good luck on your food selections and on your braces!

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i eat almost everything just cut into bits as i dont bite into anything
i even ate a chinese dried prune, altho it took me forever
its like these

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CHICKEN WINGS!

Ribs and corn on the cob.

Similarly, while everything seems to be able to be cut and eaten, there isn't quite like anything else: biting into a fresh ripe juicy apple.

Thai peanut chicken wings, YUM!!! I've eaten them once since I've been braced and it's no fun cutting them off the bone.

B

Anything that you have to pick up and bite like pizza, burgers etc. Even though I can now bite into a burger it all gets stck in my brackets and I have to spend 10 minutes picking it all out! Ruins the experience. Also have some really crunchy nachos- they are the one thing I've found I really cant eat now

I actually ate ribs off the bone within my first week of being braced. My teeth didn't hurt, and I was extra careful so i thought "why not?!". I managed ok for the first few ribs, but after a while it was getting tricky trying to manouvre all the meat around my brackets, so I ended up giving it to my boyfriend to polish off.

I hope your banding went ok!

pearls

This wouldn't really constitute as a "meal" per se, but I could really go for some corn on the cob, some Laffy Taffy and Starbursts!!! Also, some Hot Fries... not because I can't eat them now, but because the clean-up process with braces is long and tiring. LOL