A good general rule is to avoid all hard and sticky foods.
Hard foods knock brackets off the teeth and bend wires and bands.
Sticky foods pull wires away from the braces and may pull bands off the teeth. If it crunches when you bite it, it's probably too hard. Chewing pens and pencils, biting your fingernails, sucking your thumb, nervous picking at your brackets and wires, picking braces with toothpicks or other sharp items. Click here for some great Ortho-Friendly Recipes Appliance care is essential to achieving successful results in your treatment. Broken or bent wires and loose bands and brackets increase the length and number of orthodontic appointments thus increasing the amount of time you'll have your braces on.