Protect Your Smile

Mouthguards have multiple uses. One is athletic mouth guards. Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing a six year old kid with their adult teeth breaking it. I know they're going to have a lifetime of problems. Mouth guards will prevent that. In fact, a couple of Christmases ago, we ran a promotion saying. “If you're going to give the kid one of these, think about getting one of these,” showing them a bicycle, skateboard, roller blades. I can't tell you how many trauma cases we've dealt with, and we can do these well, but it's so much better to prevent them. A mouth guard prevents injuries.Now, a mouth guard is very similar, but not exactly a night guard or a splint. These are made for people that instead of someone else damaging their teeth, they're doing it to themselves. Instead of a bicycle, roller blade, or a baseball hitting them, they do the damage by grinding their teeth, usually at night. These people often are aware of it, because they'll wake up in the morning with sore muscles. Those muscles have been getting a work out all night. But the night guard or the splint is designed to protect people from themselves, instead of an athletic guard, which is to prevent you from contact with a baseball, or a hockey stick, or the pavement. As one young kid put it aptly, he said he kissed the sidewalk. That's a picture that says a thousand words, but we would rather prevent those injuries than take care of them afterwards.×