Ozark Mouthguards Will Keep Your Smile Beautiful

Mouthguards are super important. People sometimes don't quite appreciate the risk their mouth’s in. There's a couple types that they like to talk about. So the first type is a night guard. A lot of people, especially those hard-driving people that are really ambitious or just go, go, go all the time or your athletes – I have a lot of patients that run triathlons, do things like that. You can see them around town, they're clenching their teeth, they're really putting their energy into it. They're giving it their all. Well, that could be really hard on your teeth without you even knowing it. Same thing is happening at night. We're asleep, we're grinding our teeth or we're just clenching really hard. Something as simple as an acrylic mouthguard that you put in there can save you thousands of dollars and decades of wear on your teeth. It's almost a no-brainer. Nearly everyone would benefit from having one, certainly the people who do any sort of grinding or clenching and adding that extra stress to their teeth.

The second type that's really popular, that is almost even more important, is sports guards, mouthguards for kids that are playing ball. I say kids, but it could be people of any age. Here it is, the end of April. Baseball seasons and parks seasons are already starting back up, and we've already had several injuries this year, so it happens fast. What we offer here in the office is different than what you buy at the store because it's going to be custom fit, meaning it's going to be made from better materials. Instead of being a boil-and-bite that fills your whole mouth up and you're gagging all and you're trimming with scissors, this isn't going to have all that excess material. The material is more rigid. This is made specifically for your teeth. The ones you can bite and boil, they're really designed to be boilable, they're not designed to protect your teeth. It's mass-marketed. It's kind of a one size fits all. It's better than nothing, but it's not really what you need. What we find is, people who go with the boil and bites end up not wearing them because they're uncomfortable to wear. It's like anything else. If you buy a new pair of shoes and it's uncomfortable, you're not going to wear it. You buy a mouthguard that's comfortable, then you'll wear it, and then you won't have to worry about it.