Foods to Avoid

All hard, chewy or very crunchy foods especially if they are in large pieces such as:

• Hard foods - nuts, hard candies, large frozen desserts
  
• Chewy foods - bagels, hard licorice
• Crunchy foods - corn nuts, ice
• Sticky foods - caramel candies, chewing gum
• Foods that require biting into - apples, carrots (best to cut these up)
  
• Food that are hard to clean off your braces- corn on the cob, popcorn, orange quarters