My 12-year-old likes to chew ice. Is this harmful?Tooth enamel can be damaged by such things as eating “hard foods” like popcorn, cracking nut shells with your teeth, or chewing on ice. Opening packages or untying tight laces with your teeth can also damage the enamel. All of these things become much riskier when you have braces, because they can shift or bend the brackets or wires, interfering with the work the braces are designed to do and often lengthening treatment time.
Raman Orthodontics
Jim Raman, DMD
1600 Lake Murray Boulevard
Columbia, SC 29212
(803) 212-0996
RamanOrtho.com
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