When It Comes To The Best Braces Mouthguard, There’s Really Only One Option

Your braces are an expensive and important long-term investment; and that means you need to keep them safe, especially while playing sports.

Whether the sport you’re playing is contact or non-contact, athletics doesn’t just increase your chance of suffering an orofacial injury — an injury to your mouth or face — but also the chance of your braces being damaged.

Since the whole point of braces is to give you a winning smile, it’s important they remain protected. When it comes to protecting your braces — and your mouth in general — there really is only one real option: a custom mouthguard.

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

1. The Best Protection

Again, you need to protect the investment in your mouth — for both financial and physical reasons. Sure, braces cost a lot, but they also have the ability to cause injury if the brackets or wires become damaged. After all, braces are basically a bunch of metal in your mouth.

Keeping your braces safe keeps your lips, gums and cheeks safe too. And the best protection is a mouthguard that fits properly.

Custom mouthguards have a tight enough fit to firmly stay on the upper teeth without being held in place with the lower jaw. That means without biting or clenching.

When a mouthguard fits snuggly, it stays in place during any impact and won’t become dislodged. It should never be able to come loose and float around the mouth, ensuring that its right where it needs to be when impact occurs.

2. Custom To Your Mouth…

A big concern for athletes with braces is their mouthguards irritating the brackets and wires — as generic mouthguards aren’t exactly form fitting. Only a custom mouthguard, made specifically to your mouth, is able to give you the exact fit you need.

When a mouthguard is engineered to your specific mouth structure, it won’t interfere or irritate your braces. Custom mouthguards are designed with a channel to fit over the brackets and wires without inhibiting orthodontic treatment or alignment.

And that makes them comfortable to wear.

3. …Means Comfort In Your Game

Staying away from your brackets is important for your comfort, and also your performance. Again, most generically made braces mouthguards have a tendency to be extremely bulky in order to accommodate the braces in the mouth. That makes it extremely difficult to speak and breathe.

Custom mouthguards are designed to fit your mouth and braces, so they are adjusted to have protection where you need it and no-to-little material where you don’t. That eliminates bulkiness, creating the most comfortable and streamlined mouthguard possible.

And when you don’t need to worry about your protection or your comfort while you’re on the field, pitch, court or ice, you’re able to reach your peak performance.

When it comes to getting a braces mouthguard, there really is only one option. Only a custom mouthguard gives you the protection and comfort you need for your braces. But you don’t need braces to need a custom mouthguard. Find out why custom is right for you below.

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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.