6 Brace-Friendly Foods

If a brace has just been fitted or tightened in your mouth, it could have several unwelcome implications for how you live your life while you wait for it to straighten your teeth.

For instance, if you have a fixed brace, you may need to reconsider your diet. You could feel pain during your first few days of wearing a brace, and eating certain foods could add to the pain. So, what should you eat instead?

As a general rule, you should avoid hard or sticky foods, as they could damage the brace. However, you can exempt tough vegetables from this rule provided that, before eating them, you steam them until they soften and can be easily bitten, as WikiHow explains.

Raw carrots are out unless they are cut into minuscule pieces, while corn should be eaten only as kernels; don’t think about corn on the cob.

What to Eat After Getting Braces

Mashed potato

You might count a potato as a hard vegetable, but it’s much softer if it’s mashed. Another attraction of mashed potatoes is that you can tuck into many different forms of

Authority Dental highlights some brace-friendly mashed potato meal ideas. Fancy some slow-cooker buttery garlic herb mashed potatoes? Are you interested in a sweet potato and cauliflower mash? Do you prefer roasted skillet mashed potatoes? Those are just some types of mashed potatoes that won’t be harsh on your brace.

Rice

As with mashed potatoes, there are plenty of different types of rice that you can eat without causing aches.

The options include cheesy zucchini rice, cheddar chive rice, and vegetable fried rice. One plus point of the last of those is that the vegetables can be consumed in small, rather than large, chunks; that’s another reason why, with this meal, you can avoid hazards to your brace.

Soup

The liquid makeup of soup can make food feel less filling. The liquid makeup of soup can keep it from feeling like food.

Pasta

The Italians have long been onto something with this kind of dish. The dish is yet another type of food where variety is abundant; hence, even if you think you don’t like pasta, you might come across a form of pasta that is surprisingly pleasing to your taste buds.

Options to consider include creamy garlic herb mushroom spaghetti, baked cream cheese spaghetti, one-pot garlic parmesan pasta, and bacon-parmesan spaghetti squash.

Moist cakes

Cakes can be a guilty pleasure for many of us – though when eating moist cakes like cinnamon swirl loaf, sticky lemon cakes, or blueberry sour cream coffee cakes, you wouldn’t need to feel any particularly strong guilt about what effects this food is having on your brace.

Alternatively, you could opt for a removable brace, which you can take out during mealtimes. Our dentists in Corby or Leicester can provide this brace.