What is Sports Dentistry?

"Sports Dentistry" involves the prevention and treatment of orofacial athletic injuries and related oral diseases, as well as the collection and dissemination of information on dental athletic injuries and the encouragement of research in the preventive of such injuries.

Custom Sports Mouthguard

The Same Type Of Mouthguard That Protects your Sporting Heroes

Dental injuries are the most common type of orofacial injury sustained during participation in sports. The benefits of sports mouthguard protection has been well documented. Obviously dental injuries could also be significantly reduced if children, teenagers and adults involved in the following sports wore custom fabricated mouthguards: soccer, volleyball, baseball, softball, rollerblading, skateboarding, martial arts, boxing, hockey, kickboxing and mountain biking.

The Costs Of Sports Related Oral Injuries...

According to the Academy for Sports Dentistry, the lifetime dental rehabilitation costs can approach several thousand dollars per tooth, for the child or athlete who looses a tooth (or teeth) in a sporting injury.

Sports Mouthguards Are Not All Created Equal!

Comparing dentist fabricated, custom sports mouthguards with stock or boil and bite type mouthguards, typically found in stores, reveals significant differences. Boil and bite type mouthguards do not fit as accurately as custom fabricated types so they often are uncomfortable and frequently interfere with the athletes' breathing and speaking ability. At the First International Symposium on Dental Biomaterials in August 1993, Dr. J. Park, Phd reported that boil and bite mouthguards provide a false sense of protection due to the dramatic decrease in thickness when the athlete bites it into place during its softened state. Dr. Park further stated that unless dramatic improvements are made, they (boil and bite mouthguards) should not be promoted by dentists to their sporting patients.

A Custom Fit Ensures Protection