Your mouth can be at risk in a number of situations and severely injuring your teeth and gums can be painful and require invasive surgery to rectify. If you indulge in physical sports such as rugby, lacrosse or American football, or enjoy mountain biking or gymnastics, it is best if you wear a mouth guard to protect your teeth. By doing so you lessen your chances of breaking, chipping or even losing a tooth.
Basic mouth guards
The most basic level of protection is offered by stock mouth guards that you can buy in sports shops. These are affordable but won’t protect your mouth comprehensively from all threats. As they are not tailor-made, they can often be uncomfortable to wear. So called ‘boil and bite’ mouth guards are more comfortable because you can mould them to your mouth by biting them when they have been submerged in boiling water and become malleable.
Custom-made mouth guards
By far the best protection that you can give your teeth if you are participating in a physical sport is to get your dentist to fit you a mouth guard. Moulds of your teeth will be taken so that impressions can then be formed. From these impressions a technician will fabricate your own personalised mouth guard. These are far more comfortable to wear.
It is better to spend the small amount of money on a mouth guard than to sustain a painful injury that might require expensive surgery to rectify in any case.
Playing certain sports can put you at risk of injuries to some parts of your body. You should be careful to protect your body so that it doesn’t get injured and you have to go to hospital or end up with a life long complaint. This is as true of your mouth as it is the rest of your body because some sports and past times can pose a risk to your teeth either in the form of impact with other players or the ball, or the risk of falling, face-first, to the ground.
Mouth guards are used all around central Leeds. They are more normally associated with sports, especially contact sports like boxing or rugby, but they are also used in some dental procedures. If you work hard, it’s relaxing to play hard and a lot more of us are turning to sport to blow off steam. However, quite a percentage of sports will require you to wear a mouth guard. Now you’d think that it’s only to stop your teeth getting knocked out (well yes), but a good mouth guard can prevent very serious injuries from occurring. They can protect lips and gums, and prevent neck and jaw injuries that can be costly to repair. There are three types of sporting mouth guards on the market: one you buy off the shelf, another that you mould into your mouth or one that you can have custom made for you. When it comes to dentistry, they too have uses here. In our endless search for nice teeth, home bleaching kits are becoming very popular, incorporating a tight fitting gum shield to put the bleaching agent in. Orthodontic aligners such as Invisalign are clear, thin, guard shaped aligners that help straighten the teeth. Mouth guards also help in the treatment of bruxism or teeth grinding.
Mouth guards are protective appliances that are worn over the teeth to prevent it from injury during sporting events or from teeth grinding. There are different types of mouth guards that are available in Leeds Central; these are inexpensive and should be bought depending for what purpose it is to be used.
Mouth guards are protective devices worn over the teeth to prevent dental injury. They are often worn during sporting activity and to protect teeth against sun-conscious grinding, known as bruxism.
