- A mouth guard or gumshield is used in sports to prevent oral injuries to the teeth, mouth, cheeks, tongue and jaw.
- Dentists estimate that between 13% and 39% of dental injuries occur while playing sports.
- About 80% of all dental injuries affect at least one of the front teeth.
- The use of a mouth guard can prevent more than 200,000 dental injuries to the mouth each year.
- A custom fit mouth guard from the dentist is best.
- The mouthguard must fit very accurately so it stays in place all the time and it must be thick enough to protect the teeth.
- If you get a blow to the mouth usually the upper and lower teeth get knocked together and the two front teeth take all the trauma which results in trauma to the tooth or fracture.
- The mouth guard acts as a cushion between all the teeth and protects them.
