Which foods get stuck in your braces the most?

[klobird]

After having the braces for 2 months, I can eat pretty much all of the allowable foods....but my problems are mushrooms and strawberries. Mushrooms get stuck EVERYWHERE. I left a restaurant with a big chunk right behind the archwire over my front teeth!! Fortunately, I discovered it before my friends saw it. I can spend 10 minutes with a toothpick trying to get all the mushroom pieces dislodged....

And strawberries get stringy things stuck all around the braces, and there are little seeds that look like pepper that get stuck in between the teeth....yummm.......

[CountessDeSangre]

Rice tends to be my biggest headache. The way my teeth are set up, i have a few teeth that can not yet be attached to the wire because they're so far away. (I haven't done my extractions yet, my appointment is this Friday) The rice grain(s) just sits there on my gumline in front of the tooth but behind the wire.

Very annoying.

[mmm2010]

brocolli!

[mmm2010]

and I forgot to add that when I eat apples (cut into pieces of course. lol) pieces of apple always seem to get stuck in my back teeth.

[Emmauk]

Spinach is a nightmare, I quite often find a bit that has manged to wrap around a bracket somewhere!

[Waiting4braces]

Bread, no question about it!

[Kipepeo]

I can echo the broccoli and bread. I love broccoli and eat it all the time. I've had to find another veggie. Those little branches and tufts wriggle in there and hang on for dear life.

[Rach44]

Broccoli, bread, rice, and melted cheese (e.g. the cheese on a grilled cheese, cheeseburger, etc.) I'm fine when I eat pizza, but whenever I eat a grilled cheese my back brackets end up covered in cheese lol. It's gross! But I definitely agree that broccoli, bread, and rice are the other main ones for me as well.

[Rach44]

Broccoli, bread, rice, and melted cheese (e.g. the cheese on a grilled cheese, cheeseburger, etc.) I'm fine when I eat pizza, but whenever I eat a grilled cheese my back brackets end up covered in cheese lol. It's gross! But I definitely agree that broccoli, bread, and rice are the other main ones for me as well.

Additionally, I have never noticed any problems with strawberries before (and I eat them A LOT), but I just finished eating some and I've got strawberry pieces clinging everywhere on my brackets. Sigh. Thank goodness I'm at home and not out somewhere!

[loradora]

Keep an interdental toothbrush with you and duck out to the restroom to get the junk out of your brackets.

[anxiousgirl]

steamed dim sims

[prettyyoungthing]

I've found bread/cakes/chicken and definitely rice. The worst is when food gets lodged in my back teeth and I can feel it but I can't really get it out with my tongue.

[ladysable]

Basically anytype of food gets stuck in places I never even knew were there. I take a toothbrush with me all the time, and I have brushed in front of lots of people. The reaction is always somewhat funny. Either I am a role model (Adult wearing braces and taking such good care of them, look kids) to (Yuk, old person brushing their teeth, gross!) always funny. These times will pass for all of us and will be a fond memory of our time with braces.

[TinySmiley]

ground beef, bread (begals to be exact) and watermelon?? don't know why but it's true! lol

[sea54change]

LETTUCE! I have almost given up eating salads. Others are rice and melted cheese on hambrurgers.

Rach 44- Strawberries also get stuck and even they worse- they taste totally differant. They taste so bad, I don't even want to eat them. Must be an acidic reaction with the metal on the brackets/wires. Has anybody else noticed this with strawberries or other foods- changes in taste of foods?