Protect Your Dental Health with Mouthguards

If you’re active in sports, you know you can suffer injuries from falls, knocks, overexertion, and more. With this in mind, you’ve invested in a helmet, shin guards, gloves, and other protective gear to prevent sports injuries. But have you thought about protecting your smile? 

Similarly, you may not be a sports player, but your teeth are constantly at battle during the night. If you suffer from chronic grinding (bruxism), your teeth exert pressure on each other, resulting in fractured, chipped, and flattened teeth and sometimes tooth loss! Whether you want to protect your smile from sports injuries or bruxism, you’ve come to the right place. Brookside Smiles in Redlands, California, offers several options for mouthguards to protect your teeth on and off the field.

We have various mouthguards to keep your smile injury-free

Patients suffering from teeth grinding or are active in sports often get tempted by cheap and convenient store-bought mouthguards. While these mouthguards are easy to get, they rarely fit well in your mouth, are uncomfortable, and offer sub-optimal protection. 

Dr. Jennifer Nation understands your smile is unique. Rather than offering generic oral appliances, we customize each device to fit your unique smile. We take your bite impressions to create a mouthguard that fits snugly and comfortably in your mouth.

Here are common bespoke mouthguards you can find in our office.

• Sports mouthguard: An athletic dental guard acts like a shock absorber in your mouth. When you receive blows or knocks around the mouth area, this appliance absorbs the force and distributes the traumatic forces to prevent or minimize the impact of injuries. Wearing a sports mouth guard prevents numerous injuries, including lacerations, knocked-out, and broken teeth
• Bruxism mouth guard: When your teeth grind against each other, the pressure exerted is enough to wear out the hardest part in your body: the enamel. If left untreated, bruxism not only causes tooth damage — it can lead to tooth loss! Fortunately, guarding your smile against bruxism is easy. Dr. Nation recommends a nightguard to prevent your teeth from coming into contact. Wearing a bruxism mouth guard reduces dental damage and minimizes TMJ-related aches by relieving tension in your jaw muscles

Don’t let sports injuries, bruxism, or TMJ disorder reduce your quality of life. Instead, call (909) 300-9044 to talk to Brookside Smiles about how to protect your smile with oral appliance therapy.