What Youth Sport Has
the Most Dental Injuries?
You
might think that youth football or hockey generates the most injuries involving
the mouth. After all they are both heavy contact sports both with other players
and the ground or ice. But if you guessed either of those sports you would be
wrong. What you may find surprising is that the sports with the most mouth
injuries include baseball,
basketball, soccer, field hockey, softball and gymnastics. Most pros in those
sports don't wear mouth guards and as a result kids don't wear them either.
That's not good news.
Mouth guards, even cheap stock models
can help prevent broken, cracked and lost teeth as well as jaw and joint
fractures. Any of those injuries can be extremely painful and all of them are
expensive to fix. Protecting your active kid from
mouth injuries by insisting they wear a mouth guard while playing sports is an
easy, inexpensive way to guard your kid from injury.
There
are Mouth Guards and then there are Mouth Guards
Like all pieces of sporting equipment
mouth guards come in different grades of quality and features. Here are the
three most common:
- Stock mouth guards. These are plastic and come in
small, medium and large. They are cheap but if your kid won't wear them
because they hurt you don't get any protection.
- Boil and Bite. This is an attempt to customize a
plastic guard. It's an improvement but it is still not customized to the
child's mouth.
- Customized sports guards. These are what Dr. Pyle
provides at our Weston dental practice. These guards are not only
customized to the child's teeth but to the width and shape of the mouth.
They are by far the most durable and most comfortable. If your child has
braces this is the way to go.
If you have an active child you want to
make sure he/she has a mouth guard. If you want the most comfortable and most
durable mouth guard, call us at our Weston
dentist office and make an appointment for a fitting. Read more:
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