Custom Sports Guards: Provide Your Athlete with Maximum Protection.
Dr. Mock provides hundreds of mouthguards each year for both local professional ball teams as well as local school athletes. On Saturday, Friday, May 6 from 9:00 until noon, we will be hosting a mouthguard clinic dedicated for Lake Washington High School athletes. We are offering these local athletes the opportunity to be fitted for a custom sports Kang mouthguard at a 50% discount of just $25. For more information, or to connect your own team to this opportunity, please contact Julie: Julie@drmock.com or via text or phone: 206.948.5175.
Please call 425.821.9300 to schedule your athlete today. Every athlete deserves maximum protection from injury.
Sports Guards
What are sports guards?
Sports
mouthguards are plastic dental appliances which when worn can provide a
degree of protection for both the mouth’s soft tissues (lips, cheeks,
gums, tongue) and hard tissues (teeth and jaw bones). While all guards
are made of plastic, their specific design, composition and method of
fabrication vary. Generally, there are three types of sports guard
mouthpieces: stock, boil and bite and custom.
The fit of a custom mouthguard is much more comfortable than a stock piece and is much more likely to be worn by an athlete.
What are some of the specific types of benefits that a sports mouthpiece can provide?
A. Sports mouthguards can help prevent tooth fracture, tooth dislocation and jaw fracture.
Direct
blows to the mouth and teeth (created by baseballs, footballs, elbows,
etc.) can be cushioned by the presence of a mouthguard. The guard can
absorb a portion of the force directed to the mouth. The stiffness of a
guard can help to distribute a force over a greater surface area. Both
of these actions can help prevent damage to an athlete’s teeth and jaw
bones.
B. Sports guards can help prevent bruising or laceration of the soft tissues of the mouth.
Teeth
are hard, sharp objects and any object striking a person’s face has the
potential to force the soft tissues of the mouth up against them or
between them, resulting in bruising or lacerations. Sports mouthguards
can act as a buffer and therefore help minimize the effects of mouth
trauma.
For the person who has braces, the potential for lip and
cheek lacerations without a mouthguard is regarded as an almost
certainty.
C. Wearing a mouthguard may help to protect an athlete from concussions.
Some
studies have suggested that wearing a mouthguard can help to reduce the
incidence or severity of concussions by buffering force delivered to
the jaw bones that it then transmitted to the skull bones.
What sport activities require the protection of a mouthguard?
Clearly, athletes
participating in contact sports should protect their mouth with a guard.
Football, wrestling, ice hockey, lacrosse, field or roller hockey,
soccer, basketball, baseball and martial arts should all be considered sports
where the use of a mouthguard is paramount.
The
most likely cause of tooth damage for an althlete collision that
resulted in their teeth coming together forcibly or a ball or elbow blow
directly to the mouth or face. In this case the portion of a mouthguard
that covers the chewing surface of the player’s teeth can cushion the
effects of this event and help to prevent tooth damage.
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