Eating
Be careful to protect the orthodontic appliances when you eat. Faithfully follow our instructions on foods to avoid.

• For the first day or so, soft foods will be more appropriate.
• Be in the habit of cutting your food into small pieces and chewing with your back teeth.
• NEVER bite directly into anything with your front teeth
• Such as apples, pears, corn on the cob, spare ribs, buffalo wings, and any meat on the bones.
• Hard foods are off limits or must be cut up in small pieces and chewed with your back teeth

• These include foods such as hard cookies, pizza crust, hard breads, hard pretzels, bagels, hard candies, frozen snacks, ice cubes, and raw vegetables.

• Chewy, sticky candy are OFF LIMITS.  There are no exceptions

• such as laffy taffy, skittles, Starbursts, tootsie rolls, gum, gummy worms, gummy bears, sour patch kids, jelly beans, caramel, and licorice
• Chewing sticky things may not immediately cause damage but, they will do damage over time