Confess your orthodontic sins.

[Ieatswegers]

I just bought a packet of Double Deckers!

I see food (especially those on the naughty list) as a challenge rather than a what no to do.

I don't floss everyday and sometimes don't do it all week.

I don't use disclosing tablets as often as I should, I just do it once a week.

[teeebeee]

Oh my god this thread has made my day! That one about someone using their waterpik to clean the sink had me crying laughing!

Oh, what a good idea! It'll do the overflow hole at the back really well!

T xx

[lilyflower]

I drink clear alcohol with my aligners in - I've specifically made clear ocean recipes for it

I also drink smoothies and iced coffee through a straw

[TheProfessor]

I ate some sticky, overly sweet pecan pie at lunchtime today and didn't brush my teeth until after dinner.

[metalliKa]

I had peppered beef jerky! It was quite the workout for my jaw. Hope I don't pay for it later.

[thewalkingsuit]

Caramel Popcorn!

[angelina]

Chocolate is my favourite thing in the world and I was more upset about not being able to eat it than anything else when I got my braces. Even Nutella and other chocolate spreads eaten from a jar weren't cutting it for me.

Then I discovered I can stick a square of chocolate on my tongue, and if I sip hot tea while it's in my mouth it melts the chocolate and I get an English Breakfast chocolate party in my mouth.

I also re-use elastics by putting them on my middle finger then popping them back in my mouth after eating lunch and brushing because I was sick of having to ring the orthodontist clinic to have more sent out.

[parsleysage]

Nearly a year since I have confessed my sins!!!

I've done all the sins except popcorn and caramel (or other sticky items). I use my braces as an excuse quite frequently... someone offered me a gross protein bar? Oh, thanks! But I can't eat those with my braces!

I quit flossing everyday long ago, but any time my wire is off I floss and it's heavenly! I use the waterpik every night and after meals if needed. I get my teeth cleaned at the dentist every four months and I've mostly had decent results, although once she said my gums were a little puffy.

I did eat nuts in the past but I usually don't anymore; the cleanup is not worth the snack!

I eat tortilla chips by the truckload, and recently popped of a bracket while eating them! In my defense, it was bonded to a crown so clearly that made it easier to pop off ... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[Briannaramma]

I'm supposed to be flossing my entire mouth at least three time a week.
I only do it twice a month, but my orthodontist still always praises my hygiene to the high heavens.
He is an enabler.

[teeebeee]

I'm supposed to be flossing my entire mouth at least three time a week.
I only do it twice a month, but my orthodontist still always praises my hygiene to the high heavens.
He is an enabler.

[kelly88]

OK... I posted on this thread a little while ago. I felt better than you all, I felt well behaved, I felt all saintly and good.

That didn't last.

I'm four months (and a bit) in to treatment and... I'm probably an orthodontists worst nightmare.

I have to say that I haven't broken anything yet though!

I floss every day. I don't brush after eating. I brush twice a day and that's it (sometimes brush in between if my mouth feels horrible). I eat everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Nuts, crusty rolls, tortilla chips, chocolate, chewy candy, hard candy. You name it, it's been in my mouth The only thing I haven't tried yet is gum and popcorn... but that's only because I didn't like them much before braces anyway.

I had another adjustment yesterday. Before I went I pulled a loose lig off to have a look at it and then put it back on again... My reasoning was that I wanted to have a look at it and I was going to the orthodontists in a few hours anyway so it wasn't going to affect anything... right?

My orthodontist only has clear powerchains. I love curry. I am constantly sporting a lovely set of yellow braces and don't care any more My love of curry and coffee won.

I had a pokey wire in between adjustments this time. I let my fiance try to file it down with a (clean) nail file. Unsuccessful.

One morning while rushing to leave the house I couldn't get the cap off the new bottle of mouthwash. In frustration I opened it with my teeth...

Basically, I'm a really bad girl. As I said, I haven't broken anything or had a bracket pop off yet though!!!

[djspeece]

OK... I posted on this thread a little while ago. I felt better than you all, I felt well behaved, I felt all saintly and good.

That didn't last.

I'm four months (and a bit) in to treatment and... I'm probably an orthodontists worst nightmare.

I have to say that I haven't broken anything yet though!

I floss every day. I don't brush after eating. I brush twice a day and that's it (sometimes brush in between if my mouth feels horrible). I eat everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Nuts, crusty rolls, tortilla chips, chocolate, chewy candy, hard candy. You name it, it's been in my mouth The only thing I haven't tried yet is gum and popcorn... but that's only because I didn't like them much before braces anyway.

I had another adjustment yesterday. Before I went I pulled a loose lig off to have a look at it and then put it back on again... My reasoning was that I wanted to have a look at it and I was going to the orthodontists in a few hours anyway so it wasn't going to affect anything... right?

My orthodontist only has clear powerchains. I love curry. I am constantly sporting a lovely set of yellow braces and don't care any more My love of curry and coffee won.

I had a pokey wire in between adjustments this time. I let my fiance try to file it down with a (clean) nail file. Unsuccessful.

One morning while rushing to leave the house I couldn't get the cap off the new bottle of mouthwash. In frustration I opened it with my teeth...

Basically, I'm a really bad girl. As I said, I haven't broken anything or had a bracket pop off yet though!!!

You're progressing nicely down the road to orthodontic perdition! "Saintly and good" are overrated, anyhow.

[rainbowcatcher]

I like to think of myself as a bit of a guzzler. I guzzle coke, I guzzle tea, I guzzle coffee, I guzzle red wine.

I smoke when I drink, I love biting in to burgers, I eat popcorn, nuts and curries, oh the curries. Someone asked me why I CHOSE to have yellow braces...I had to break the news it was in fact a curry stain on clear braces. Did that put me off? Hell no.

So basically if you are acidic and stain my braces. I am in to you.

Ahh I feel better after that confession .

[Kellyj97]

I've had my braces for about two years and am probably my orthodontists worst nightmare!! I've had two brackets snap off (one I swallowed whilst eating a chicken sandwich), and I only wore my elastics for about a week before giving up. After a few months my ortho realised I wouldn't wear them, so he made me wear a removable plate thing, which I also didn't wear. Last week I got a quad helix literally glued in so he knows I won't be able to remove it :( it's painful and I recommend using the elastics before you get brutal contraptions of pain and death glued to your mouth!!

[KayKay]

I drink iced tea every day. Otherwise, I'm not so bad about eating naughty things - I'm basically lazy. If the food is too much work to clean up from my braces and my teeth, I can walk on by.

I don't floss often - I do water pick twice a day and LOVE it. I will only brush twice a day (morning and night) and sometimes after lunch if its been messy - which is rarely.

I consider myself to be a high-maintenance orthodontist patient - as I will go in between appointments to get pokey wires clipped or bite ramps adjusted. I ask a ton of questions when I'm in their office because except for YOU - no one else seems interested in talking about MY brace experience.