Which Foods Should I Avoid in the First Week With Veneers?
The short blacklist: hard, sticky, extreme temperatures and deep pigments — everything else is largely fair game.
The first week after bonding is less about a strict diet than about sparing new veneers the four stresses they handle worst while everything settles: cracking forces from hard foods, peeling forces from sticky ones, temperature shocks, and pigments that can mark still-maturing cement margins.
The practical week-one list
Put off ice chewing, nut brittle, hard candy, crusty baguette ends, caramel, taffy and gum. Cut apples and corn off the cob instead of biting in. Go easy on scalding soups, and give red wine, curry and berry sauces a short break or a water rinse afterward. Everything soft, lukewarm and lightly colored is open.
How cautious to be varies with the individual case — the number of veneers, bite force and gum condition all differ. Treat this list as the default, then follow the specific instructions your own dentist gives at the bonding visit; theirs override any general guide, including this one.
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