Things braces make more difficult...

[ashesgap]

Well after all this time there are quite a few things that braces get in the way of...feel free to add on.
1. tearing open ketchup packets with my teeth-really miss that
2. eating fresh cherries-found a cool cherry pitter on amazon, it's a tooth you put the cherry in and push the pit out.
3. testing spaghetti noodles for doneness.
These three things came up in the last 4 days. After the noodle issue I figured I can't possible be the only one with these problems.

[wcrasmus]

I've only been at this a little less than a month but here's what I've found so far.

1. Eating in general is amusing/annoying for me.
2. Opening the top of the coffee creamer with the foil seal.

[Nikkistixx06]

I'm a snacker through out the whole day. So it has been extremely difficult for me to get use to these things. Opening things with your teeth though wow I didn't even think of this being an issue before the braces went on and didn't realize how much I actually need to do that on a daily basis. Yesterday I wanted to eat some cherry tomatoes but can't bite into those. So here are a few things for me:

Cherry tomatoes
Gummy Worms
Hot cheetos :(

The cherry pitter is a great idea though. I saw some cherries at the store the other day and was really sad that I couldn't get them. And my favorite summer time snack corn on the cob.

[luchababe]

Flossing without a mirror.
Tearing Scotch tape into strips with my teeth.

[hypocrite opportunist]

- Eating anything that isn't broken into a small piece (elastics make it impossible to chew anything large)
- Dining out (can't leave the house without a mirror, proxy brush, extra elastics, and floss)

[Jethro]

Life. Fortunately, they have no affect on drinking! LOL

[jambo532]

Ahhh... I have the same issues as you. The ketchup thing is really annoying. Or biting your nails. I'm not really a biter but if you have a hang nail or something... impossible.
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[klobird]

Eating at work....I don't feel comfortable just running out to grab a burger, or especially a hard taco (which I love). It's that I still feel like I have a mouthful of food when I'm done eating. And I run to the bathroom with my little travel bag, with my little travel toothbrush, toothpaste and mouthwash. And stimudent pics--could not go without those....and then the wax and elastics...it takes me about 15 minutes of my lunch break to clean up after eating. I am soooooo thankful our bathrooms are private!!!

And I eat with the elastics in (ortho encourages) all the while thinking they will break and I will swallow them--disgusting.
And also I eat with wax on a very back tooth that has a band and a hooky thing that hurts like crazy if I take the wax off for any reason. I've already been to the ortho twice to get that spot adjusted...what they do helps for about 36 hours...
(I've only had braces for 2 weeks......2yrs of this to go....)

So basically eating is not very much fun and I'm hoping it will get better...

[bookfairy]

"opening" bobbypins; before braces, when I wanted to put a bobbypin in my hair, I just slit it open on my teeth. Have to do it before now, and it's complicated to hold oyur hair and opening teh bobbypins...

Removing gloves; when you have your hands full, and you just want to take one (preferably wool) glove off...It gets stuck