Six Reasons Your Child Needs a Sports Mouth Guard

The American Dental Association estimates that athletes who don't wear mouthguards are sixty times more likely to suffer dental injury than those who do.

Dental mouth guards typically cover the upper teeth and also protect the soft tissues of the tongue, lips and cheek lining.

I consider wearing a mouth guard mandatory in contact and collision sports including:

Football

Lacrosse

Boxing

Wrestling

Basketball

Hockey

Soccer

A mouth guard can also prevent injury in non-contact sports, such as bicycling, skating, skateboarding and gymnastics. Hits to the face in those sports may be accidental, but they are just as damaging.

How prevalent are sports-related dental injuries? In 2012, the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation forecast that more than three million teeth would be knocked out in youth sporting events that year!

Without a mouth guard, common injuries include:

chipped or broken teeth

root damage

fractured crowns or loss of an entire tooth or teeth

lip and cheek injuries

fractured jaws

concussions.

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