First Meal

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#1 Post by **debonairdenise** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:56 pm

I will be debanded tomorrow and I am excited about my first meal without braces. I don't know what to eat...should it be Mexican, Italian...I know this sounds crazy, but could you guys give me some suggestions on what your first meal was. I will put the ideas in a hat and pull one out. I am just too excited to think right now for myself.

Thanks in advance

~Denise

#2 Post by **JMarq** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:03 pm

Hmmm well im being debanded in 2 weeks and i still eat everything i ate before my braces lol.....i guess thats why i had a bracket broken off a few months back!

#3 Post by ***melissa*** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:29 pm

lol, you are so lucky. im barely 5 months into braces so ill give you a list of foods i WISH i could bite into:
corn on the cobb
apples
ribs
hard chips (like doritos!!)
steak
crunchy cereals
popcorn

man, the list could go on and on. but corn on the cobb is def on the top of the list for me...

i cant wait to be brace free.. enjoy your freedom!!!!!!

#4 Post by **JMarq** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:33 pm

Trust me you'll give in sometime and eat doritos and ribs and stuff lol it took me about a year and maybe cause im 25 im a little more cautious when eating foods like that.

#5 Post by **jaswi** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:35 pm

Im lookin forward to corn on the cob, ribs, and stuff that is just annoying to eat with braces. I can still manage ribs, but its just no fun with this metal.

#6 Post by **acrowell** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:55 am

Well, not to put a damper on it, but my ortho gave me a bottle of champagne and a card that said something about being able to go back to the "food you love" but also told me that it would take six months for my teeth to really be stable and that I wasn't imagining the sort of loose feeling I was having in regard to my teeth.

As such, I can't imagine even trying to bite into something hard like an apple just yet for fear that I'd leave a tooth in it!

#7 Post by **diande** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:58 pm

I plan on eating curry and lots of tea/coffee without milk or creamer. These are the things I had to avoid because the staining of my white ligs was awful!

Maybe a little popcorn to celebrate. I told my friends I'm having a 'teeth party', that is an 'all-you-can-eat' party for my teeth to enjoy, lol

#8 Post by ***melissa*** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:43 pm

JMarq wrote:Trust me you'll give in sometime and eat doritos and ribs and stuff lol it took me about a year and maybe cause im 25 im a little more cautious when eating foods like that.

ohh trust me, I have had doritos and popcorn since being braced but I have also broken about 4 brackets!! I'm 24, and I am also cautious, but after these last 2 broken brackets I decided, no more hard food for me!!

#9 Post by **JMarq** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:09 pm

*melissa* wrote:
JMarq wrote:Trust me you'll give in sometime and eat doritos and ribs and stuff lol it took me about a year and maybe cause im 25 im a little more cautious when eating foods like that.
ohh trust me, I have had doritos and popcorn since being braced but I have also broken about 4 brackets!! I'm 24, and I am also cautious, but after these last 2 broken brackets I decided, no more hard food for me!!

thats exactly how i was lol i used to love those rice cake quakes things in caramel, and thats what broke my bracket off so i stopped eating those lol

#10 Post by ***melissa*** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:24 pm

mmm those quaker thingies are good! *sigh* lol!
so how do you manage to eat doritos??.. those are thin but very hard!! any secrets? lol

#11 Post by **JMarq** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:29 pm

*melissa* wrote:mmm those quaker thingies are good! *sigh* lol!
so how do you manage to eat doritos??.. those are thin but very hard!! any secrets? lol

nope no secrets lol i just eat them like i would anything else, i just got so used to my braces that i just eat. The quakes are very hard though so i stay away from those now lol

#12 Post by **jaswi** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:42 pm

Honestly I don't even know how people break brackets, do they pop off or break in half or what?

#13 Post by **debonairdenise** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:07 pm

My first meal was a Big Mac and a LARGE sweet tea. I'm from the south so sweet tea is the thing to drink. I love my new smile. I can't stop staring.

#14 Post by **JMarq** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:12 pm

jaswi wrote:Honestly I don't even know how people break brackets, do they pop off or break in half or what?

When mine broke off it just popped off my tooth, still sliding around on my wire lol kinda annoying.

#15 Post by ***melissa*** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:15 pm

yep, thats what mine do when they break...just kinda slide around on the wire and sometimes try to flip around too!...its sooo annoying!