What Can’t You Eat With Dentures?

Prosthetic teeth or dentures are typically called false teeth. Designed to replace missing or infected teeth, they are specialized dental devices. 

Dental devices like these are customized for each patient. With the support of the soft and hard tissues around them, dentures fit perfectly in the mouth cavity. These prosthetic teeth are a great way to restore the condition of your teeth.

However, like any other oral device, denture also comes with some precautionary measures. And the most important thing that you must take care of is what you eat and what you should avoid. 

Keeping the food choices in mind is very vital because any hard-to-chew food hampers the quality of the denture. Therefore, we have given information regarding the same in this article to help you out with this common confusion. 

What to eat and avoid just after getting your dentures? 

If you are someone who got his false teeth implanted a few hours ago it becomes very vital to ask your dentist what food you can eat and what food you can avoid in those initial hours or for 1-2 days. 

Because your mouth needs time to settle with the new prosthetics you can’t eat anything and everything. So, here is an overview of what you can eat in those initial days and what you can not: 

Foods you can eat: You should mainly focus on eating soupy and soft food like cereal, vegetable soup, pudding, mashed potatoes, juice, and yogurt. 

Foods you must avoid: You must avoid food items like hard cookies, chewy meat, nuts or protein bars, extremely hot or extremely cold drinks, etc. 

You must take care of the above-mentioned food choices at least for a few days just after getting dentures.

What you should not eat with dentures? 

After a few days, a week or so, you would be able to enjoy most of the food items but still, there are some precautions that you should follow in order to maintain the quality of the dentures.

So below we have listed some food items that you should avoid whenever you can if you have false teeth: 

Chewy meats: Sometimes nice, juicy meat is all you need to fulfill a craving, and there’s nothing better than it. One of the problems with tough meats is their chewiness. Teeth and gums are exposed to unnecessary stress when food has to be chewed many times to tenderize. Therefore, it is best to avoid them most of the time.

Popcorn: Denture wearers can find it a bit painful to eat this salty delight. Everyone has experienced getting pesky kernels stuck between their teeth and not being able to remove them. Similarly, dentures can trap kernels under your new set of teeth, which is much worse!

So, to avoid all the uneasiness and irritation you can try swapping popcorn with vegetable chips.

Sticky candy/gums: Sour sweets such as toffees and brittles could be your worst nightmare if you wear dentures. Sweet treats like these are delicious, but they are horrible for your teeth. Your false teeth can become loose if you are exposed to sticky substances. This can allow food to get into your gums and irritate them. You can go for softer snacks like cake rather than gummy candies.

Nuts: Foods that are difficult to eat or chew are problematic for dentures. People with dentures shouldn’t eat nuts because they’re typically hard, making them a no-no. The chewing of nuts is usually done on one side of the mouth, making this an almost impossible task to not put pressure on the false teeth.  So, you should avoid them. 

Lastly, to prevent dentures from popping off on one side, denture wearers must chew food evenly on both sides in this way they will last longer. And you must consult your healthcare provider before adding or removing any of the above-mentioned foods from your diet.