Custom Braces Mouthguards: The Only Protection For Your Investment

Your braces are an important investment. For your parents, the investment is financial; for you, it’s one of time and social awkwardness.

But aside from the high cost and mouth full of metal, the real investment is the one you’re making towards a perfect, winning smile. So, shouldn’t you want to protect that investment?

When it comes to protecting your braces, there really is only one viable option — a custom mouthguard. While some may say that custom mouthguards are not right for braces, they are simply wrong.  

Here are three reasons why you should only consider custom to protect your braces:

1. The Best Protection

As an athlete, you have a 33-56% chance of receiving an orofacial injury — an injury to your mouth or face — during your playing career. That’s particularly true if you play a contact sport.

With approximately 5 million teeth knocked out annually during sports and recreational activities, and a lifetime need for maintenance, appointments and surgeries costing approximately $20,000 to replace just one tooth, it’s highly important that you have the best protection possible.

Both the American Dental Association and the Academy for Sports Dentistry recommend a professionally made, properly-fitted custom mouthguard for all contact and collision sports, as they’re 1000% more protective than any other type of mouthguard. Custom mouthguards are designed to match the exact structure of your individual mouth, making for the most intimate and comfortable fitting mouthguard possible, while outlasting boil-and-bite guards 5-to-1.

2. The Ultimate Comfort

Whether you have braces or not, it’s essential to make sure your mouthguard stays in the proper position against your upper teeth without needing to bite or clench down to keep it in place. When a mouthguard doesn’t fit correctly, there is no guarantee the mouthguard is going to be in place when impact occurs.

While you need to allow room for both tooth movement and the brackets of your braces, your mouthguard still must fit tightly and securely against your upper teeth.

Doesn’t seem possible, right? Well, with a custom-made mouthguard, you are able to protect yourself and your braces while remaining as comfortable as possible.

3. The Personalized Design

The custom in ‘custom mouthguard’ isn’t just a clever name; it’s exactly that — custom. That means your mouthguard is designed to fit your exact mouth structure and your exact needs. That means your braces mouthguard must be designed to allow both tooth movement and growth, and enough room to not irritate your brackets and wires.

The brackets and wires of your braces must have space in the mouth, or else they’ll become irritated. And irritating the brackets in your mouth is not a hard thing to do, as you likely are very well aware.

Thankfully custom braces mouthguards don’t just have the ability to fit perfectly over braces without inhibiting tooth growth and alignment, they also provide ample room for the brackets to be uncompromised.

And because they have enough room, your orthodontist is able to make adjustments without you needing to get a new mouthguard.

Braces aren’t just a financial investment; they’re an investment in your future perfect smile. Protect that investment with a custom mouthguard!

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Author Bio

Bobbie Quinn, co-founder of Gladiator Custom Mouthguards, played both lacrosse and field hockey as a youth and went on to play Division 1 women’s lacrosse in college. Bobbie continues to play women’s league field hockey and enjoys watching her son play various sports.