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.

Advantages of Kids Mouth Guard
- Mouth guards help cushion a blow to the face. They limit the risk of injuries to the lips, tongue and jaw. And they help avoid broken or chipped teeth, nerve damage to a tooth, or loss of a tooth.
- While a mouth guard won’t prevent a concussion, a study in the May/June 2014 issue of General Dentistry (the clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry) shows they can reduce the severity of the injury.
- A mouth guard will also keep braces from injuring gums and cheeks, and protect the braces.
- Mouth guards acts like a crash helmet that protects the jawbone from an unexpected fracture.
- Mouth guards are far less expensive than dental repairs. Our goal is to keep your child’s teeth perfect, forever. That’s why a good mouthguard is one of the best investments you can make in sports equipment.
- Mouth guards are easy to maintain.

Do you have any questions about the dental mouth guards for kids and teens we offer in NYC? Would you like to schedule an appointment with the top rated New York City pediatric dentist Dr. Sara Babich? Please call our office at 212-988-4070 or visit our kids dentistry center in Manhattan on Upper East Side.

Pediatric Dentistry: Dr. Sara B. Babich, DDS
116 E 84th St,
New York, NY 10028
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