4 Reasons to Use a Mouth Guard in Sports
Why cure when you can prevent? Why regret when you can guard your precious smile? Playing a sport is healthy and excellent for your mind and body, but it can be harmful for your teeth.
Wearing a mouth guard might be slightly cumbersome initially, but not as regretful as losing a front tooth or a broken jawline. With Monsoon around the corner, kids need extra protection when it comes to sports.
Here are 4 reasons to use a mouth guard in sports:
- Mouth guards protect against tooth fractures: One of the most important functions of a mouth guard is to protect your teeth from fracturing during a sporting accident.
- Mouth guards prevent tooth displacement: If you are playing a sport where something can hit your face, watch out! If you aren’t wearing a mouth guard, your tooth could break or be moved and displaced easily. A mouth guard will cushion your teeth and distribute the force over all of your teeth so that one tooth doesn’t receive a crushing blow.
- Mouth guards protect against soft tissue injury: A basketball player once bit right through her lower lip and needed stitches to repair them. This wouldn’t happen if she covered the sharp surfaces of her teeth with a mouth guard. Mouth guards help to protect soft tissues and keep you from injuring your tongue and cheek too.
- Mouth guards protect against knock outs: Nobody wants a large gap in their smile due to an accident while playing a sport. A mouth guard can surely protect your tooth from being knocked out.
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. A mouth guard may seem inconvenient and uncomfortable initially, but a fractured jaw or a knocked out tooth will be extremely painful and is sure to affect your appearance more than wearing a mouth guard will. The choice is yours!
Play hard, Play wise! – The Dental Spa
