I was eating honey mustard pretzel bites, and they were so good that I couldn't stop. They were really hard to chew through, and I could feel each pretzel bite smashing against the wires of my braces as I chomped down. However, I had eaten a bunch of these pretzels months ago, and my braces were fine then, so I figured eating them again wouldn't be a problem.
When flossing later that night, I noticed that the lower left end of the wire on my braces had come outside of the last bracket. (Apparently only soft pretzels are appropriate for braces wearers.) I tried sticking the wire back in, but couldn't manage it. I called my orthodontist's office about a week later. They told me if nothing in my mouth hurt, I could wait until my next appointment.
During my appointment, I was informed that the wire had come out because the bracket next to the last had fallen off, likely swallowed by me without my knowledge. After the orthodontic team had glued another bracket in its place, a separate bracket on my top braces fell off. And then the new lower bracket came unglued.
Then came the frustrating process of re-gluing both brackets. I felt kind of guilty because I had knowingly chewed on something really hard. My mouth was stretched and pulled in different directions for quite some time. My lips even cracked in two places because they were so dry and chapped.
Luckily, everything eventually got glued on, even though I couldn't upgrade to the thicker wire this time.
No more pretzel bites for me.
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