I have braces. Sometimes I get them tightened to when I can't either chew or bite food for a few days. All I get to eat is either soup, congee/rice porridge, jello, ice cream, yogurt etc. Eating soup and congee over and over gets nasty after awhile. I'm a fatty so being starved makes me depressed. So if you've had braces or have them what do you eat when you can't chew?

ramen is okay for me x] just cook them longer

i've never had braces, but my friends usually eat mashed potatoes or something.

i like mash. o_o


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-jisoo

ice cream! every meal, every day!

oh god im so sick of mashed potatoes too.


thats like drinking a bottle of laxatives

braces hurt a lot. i almost cried when i got them. thank goodness they're off now. ^^*
anyway, i forced myself to eat regularly & ignore the pain. hunger>pain.
eat ramyun! but ramyun's bad for you.. so just stick to yogurt & soup. x___x

My friend has braces and she can eat anything she want.. She doesnt seem to have a problem with it..

I didn't have problems when I had braces. But sorry, the only foods I can think of are the liquidy ones like soup, yogurt, ice cream, jello, etc

congee
well actually i didnt have much pain after they tighten it every month
elastics is what feels weird... wake up every morning feeling that ur teeth are falling out

who actually follows what they suggest... like not to eat popcorn and stuff...
coz i know i didnt follow that and i had no trouble xD xP

i always had liquid like water tea coffee, ice cream, and macaroni salad...

Pretty much what you listed... or baby food
If you want good food, the only option is sacrifice pain for taste
Try different varieties of soup (I love soup...)
How long have you had your braces? After a few month, it should only hurt for a day when they tighten them...
For me, the first month was pain, then only a day of pain or some discomfort after tightening...
Basically, you get used to it and you'll be able to chew painlessly again.

i had braces ages ago...yea can be painful to eat when u just got it tighten
usualli eat congee n bread
i mean i dun bite nething cos hurt to much but i can chew slowli using the bak teeth...
just takes longer to eat a meal hehe
but hey once the braces are off~~ its worth it

I have braces now; *i've only had them for a lil over a year*

And i still eat everything "i'm not suppose to" even when I get it tighten :] getting it tighten doesn't hurt as much anymore for me.

I still eat a lot of sugary fooooood ; chew gum; and eat sticky stuff. yeuppp ^__^ it's all good . hahahhaha

I ate tofu with some soy sauce ^-^

I eat everything. It's just harder to eat certain things like apples or popcorn because they can break a bracket or get stuck in the wires, but you'll get used to it.

When I can't chew...ramen and rice.

OHOH i had braces! i got them off like 2 weeks ago. but the pain dosnt end there T_T retainers suck! UGHHH!

i eat ramen noodles,yogurt, oatmeal,spagetti, soft cookies.

yummyuummm

my braces are off now, but it was never that bad when i had it on.. i ate practically everything!

the pain shouldn't last that long, it only hurts the first couple of days when you get it tightened.

But if it hurts that badly for you... then... lukewarm soup? lol


you're lactose intolerant?

ive had braces for four years :o
meh i ate anything and everything. i chewed gum when i wasnt supposed to, and ate gummy bears.
im kinda a rebel :] haha but yeah, if your teeth hurt, eat ravioli and spaghetti (soft pastas!)
mmmm italian food.

i have braces right now..
and i can practically eat anything...

but for like apples..or other things hard..i have to cut it up..so i won't break my braces..
but i refuse to..cuz i'm so lazy...

so yeah..
i usually break my braces..^^;;

sometimes my braces hurt when i get them tightened..when i first got them, i went to a mexican resturant..cuz they didn't really start to hurt until later..
and yeah..i watch my dad eat.-__-;;

if it hurts really bad..
there's nothing you can do..except take painkillers and eat soup...or liquid food...

solution sloved dump all food in blender and eat!

MM when i had braces i ate steamed vegetables, savoury minced beef dish, cake!

soft cake, mashed potatoes, jamba juice, soup, and ice cream

When I had my braces, I ate stewed tofu, congee, soup and mashed potatoes. That was only for the first two days after I got them tightened though.

soups, steamed vegetable, mashed potatoes...

i never had ice cream during that period

I only ate porridge at home and then I bring a soft squishy egg cake to school for lunch. I did that for a week and then I resumed my regular meals, which was rice and other Asian dishes.. even though it still hurts a bit after the first week.

i brought baby food when i first got them but after one meal of baby food i was like 'this is gross' so i just ate normal food instead

braces shouldnt limit what you get to eat, i eat everything

haha ... i ate anything ... i don't understand why we can't eat gum because i ate it lots of times. but yea bad choice since i ate crunch things and one of my brackets broke 2 times.

eat fruit but chop them up into small cubes (:
thats what my cousins do xD

i have braces... and i eat everything!
well ok, not everything
but i can eat food like i did when i didn't have braces.

when i get mine tightened, they don't hurt...
maybe my dentist isnt doing his job right...

i recently got my braces tightened but i just eat everyday food.
i need my food, even if it hurts like heck.

Geez braces are not fun! Just stay away from foods that can get stuck in between your bands around your braces because it can spread bacteria around your mouth. Drink lots of lemon juice I dunno...

when i had braces not ALL my teeth hurt, so i kinda chewed like on the side teeth if my front teeth hurt or the front teeth if my side teeth hurt..ahahaha cos i'm a hungry hipppo who loves all her food!
and omgosh my mum made me eat soo much congee too but she likes her salt so it was quite yummy! =P

i still eat. MUNCH MUCNH I just dont like chewing gum tho

When I first got them, I ate soup and porridge.
Now when I get them tightened, it only hurts for like two hours?
So I pretty much eat everything when the pain is gone.
=3

Just.. congee if you like it. If you dont like that, you can stick with soup + crakers/bun (soak bun for long time)

... I got mine off a few months ago :] So I know exactly what it feels like when you elastic them/tighten.

Also, I wouldn't reccommend mashed potatos or anything that is sticky/goo-y, because when it is stuck in your braces, you are gonna hafta suck it out of your braces, and you are going to CRY.

No lies about the sucking >:x

Chicken wings!!!
LOL! i noe it doesn't make sense... but my dentist is near this restaurant that is famous of the chicken wings... so yeaaa

...i still ate everything, including the food that was on the "list of things not to eat" my ortho gave me. oops lol.
But right after getting my braces tightened, i used to pig out on soup, porridge, and mashed potatoes XP

I usually eat normal food.. if its too hard I just swallow them! hahhaa if it hurts a lot then I just eat rice porridge. I love rice porridge. And cereal drinks..

I usually lose my appetite everytime it gets tightened coz it freakin' hurts like hell.

When I do try to eat though, I eat rice and pour soup broth on it. Or have you tried rice and soy sauce? That's really yummy!
I don't chew it at all kekeke

fruit cups....or that fruit sauce stuff..its good ^^ well...STAY AWAY FROM CARAMEL AND HARD CANDIES..and make sure to cut ur fruits such as apples, pears, ect to small pieces you can fit into ur mouth...keke...

honestly, when i had braces i just ate the same things i ate before i had them ... only if they were hard or chewy i made sure to cut them up into smaller pieces.. really small pieces

gum screwed up my wires tho loll and it made my jaw click after a while O___o

O__o

the only time where I couldnt' eat normal food was the FIRST TIME I GOT THEM.

now I eat whatever.

Just tear/cut it up in small pieces so you don't have to chew that much.

Getting braces tightened is fun. And the biting your teeth together makes that numbing feeling. Maybe that's just for me because my friends look at me like I'm a psycho. -_____-

When my teeth really hurt I didn't eat anything, but other times I just ate whatever I wanted to.

i have braces for about three years... i just got it off last 2006... i used to eat soups, arrozcaldo.... soft foods... rice w/ soup... mashed potato will do... eating ice cream is good... when i still have my braces i can't eat hard foods like peanuts and even corn coz it will stick in between my braces...

well if you just got them on, then eat soft foods. within a week you
can start eating hard foods. so you can eat whatever you want like you
would normally do, having braces doesn't mean you cant' eat blah blah
the orthos say you're not suppose to, but everyone eats it anyway.
i have braces..ugh i want them off.

mmm I don't know I think after awhile I just
didn't care and started eating it all (I eat a lot lol)
but I think NOODLES are good for when you have braces
or just anything that doesn't require too much
chewing lol
or popsicles/ice cream haha especially if your teeth kinda
hurt because the cold sorta numbs the feeling or something
xD

I eat everything with braces. I totally hate it when it gets tightened because it hurts like crap and its annoying because everytime it gets tightened like we always eat my favorite food and i just sit there staring at it because i can't eat it.T.T so depressing. but its off now ^^

when it hurt anything soft, after that anything that comes to mind.

I'm wearing braces now.

I usually get it tightened in the afternoon, after lunch. So after that I will just drink water, and when it's dinner time I will eat... the usual stuffs? No deep-fried food though. But everything else is okay with me. XD Breakfast will be bread and milk/water.

After two or three days when it doesn't hurt anymore I will start to eat the harder types of food, like apple and fried chicken, etc. Hahaha. XP

i got my braces off just a few weeks ago,
when i got them tighened i still kinda ate w/e i wanted.
it'd just hurt.. heh..
but the pain was worth it if i was eating "good" food!
i hate eating mush, congee, so i usually just sucked it up and bore the pain

hmm..i think i had a lot of soup when i FIRST got em' cuz korean people have a lot of soupage. lOl. and whenever i got em' tightened..soon enough i would get immune to the feeling so i have anything and everything cuz im a fatty and i would do anything for food. PWAHAHAHAH (;