Can You Eat Cotton Candy With Braces?

Unfortunately, one of the foods you should not eat is candy. Candy isn’t advised for several reasons. Knowing why and how eating candy while you wear braces can affect your chance of completing the correct orthodontic treatment, which in turn can affect the condition of your gums and teeth over time. It will hopefully lessen your cravings for sweets while you are wearing braces and perhaps even beyond your orthodontic treatment, too.

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It’s All About the Sugar:

Let’s look at the obvious: candy is harmful to you, regardless of whether braces are in your mouth or not. It’s packed with sugar that is a macronutrient. Carbohydrates fuel the bacteria that live on your teeth, causing acids that cause tooth decay to occur. If you have a tooth that isn’t braced the candy can pose a serious risk. In addition, you need bands and brackets needed during orthodontic treatment, and your teeth could likely be faced with terrifying dental decay.

If you take the total amount of sugar you’re eating into consideration and the difficulty of getting to every surface of your tooth as well as around the brackets and band attachments using your dental floss and toothbrush the simple act of abstaining from sweets in the first place is more important than giving in to temptation.

Sticky, Hard, It’s All the Same:

Candy is available in a range of different varieties, but it’s the same when you think about eating it with braces. From minty, hard candies as well as sticky toffee and chocolaty bars that are gooey, will do make a mess of your braces, regardless of the shape.

If you chew an extremely hard or sticky piece of candy, even without braces your teeth are stressed due to the force required to break it down and chew the candy. When you have braces on your teeth when you bite into a hard piece of candy can put an additional strain on the band or bracket attachment, as well as the tooth.

The majority of the time the band or bracket will give in to the force required to chew the candy and eventually crack or break off. If a band or bracket is loose and your orthodontic treatment is brought to a standstill until you’re able to visit your dentist and get the issue corrected. For the majority of patients, loose brackets or bands can delay their treatment by between one and two months.

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