It May Be April Fools’ Day, But Your Team’s Protection Is No Joke

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April Fools!

Yes, that was a terrible joke, but it’s April 1 — better known as April Fools’ Day; a day for jokes, tricks and bad lies.

But just because the calendar says it’s 4/1, doesn’t mean you aren’t being duped the other 364 days of the year. It’s time to stop being fooled by generic boil-and-bite mouthguards and get your athletes the true protection they need.

Here are three tricks boil-and-bite mouthguards are pulling on you and why your players would be foolish to not wear custom mouthguards:

1. April Fools: Boil-And-Bite Mouthguards Offer Optimal Protection

Boil-and-bite mouthguards are made to fit any mouth; that means your players’ guards are thick where they shouldn’t be, inhibiting their ability to breathe and communicate correctly. It also means they don’t have the proper protection where they need it.

Both the American Dental Association and the Academy For Sports Dentistry (ASD) recommend a professionally-made, properly-fitted custom mouthguard for all contact and collision sports. According to the ASD, custom mouthguards that are individually engineered to fit an athlete’s exact mouth structure are 1000% more protective than any other type of mouthguard (e.g. boil-and-bite).

The intimate fit of a custom mouthguard means your players are getting protection precisely where they need it. And custom mouthguards aren’t just the most effective mouthguard available; they are the most comfortable as well…

2. April Fools: Boil-And-Bite Mouthguards Are Comfortable

While custom mouthguards are designed for ideal comfort, the same certainly can’t be said about generic boil-and-bite mouthguards. Again, the bulkiness of a generically made rubbery mouthguard does very little to offer comfort where comfort is needed.

Athletes are incapable of breathing freely, speaking clearly or drinking water with a boil-and-bite mouthguard taking up all the space needed for such basic functions of the mouth. That means they constantly need to remove their mouthguards for simple tasks. Custom mouthguards aren’t just designed for the best protection, but for breathing, speaking and drinking from a water bottle with no hindrance or discomfort.

Custom mouthguards are even specially designed to fit players with braces!

3. April Fools: Players Don’t Purposefully Lose Their Boil-And-Bite Mouthguards

Sure, there’s always a good excuse, but doesn’t it seem like your players are always losing their generic boil-and-bite mouthguards? Sometimes they’re dropped on the field and an athlete doesn’t care to pick it up and use it because it’s dirty. Other times, players just simply don’t want to wear them and “forget” them in their locker or at home. When a piece of sports equipment is generic and ugly — like a mangled piece of rubber — players tend to take a negative approach to that piece of gear.

Aside from protection and comfort, custom mouthguards also feature personalization.

With a completely personalized mouthguard — from team color and logo to player’s name and number — your athletes won’t just get a performance enhancing piece of equipment, but a new piece of team gear they value as much as their jersey or lucky undershirt. And when they’re at their locker preparing for game time, after they pull their jersey over their pads and apply eye black, the last piece of equipment they put on is their custom mouthguard; completing their game face.

That’s something your players won’t “lose.” No fooling.

Stop fooling around and get your team the protection they need with custom mouthguards from Gladiator Custom Mouthguards, the industry-leader in custom mouthguards.