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I'm fighting an mma match and need a mouth guard, but i wear full dentures. do i wear them and a boil-fit guard, or out with a custom mouth guard?
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Custom Guard: I would recommend a custom guard, especially due to the potential of trauma to the head and neck region.
Answered 11/18/2015
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Boil and Bite: Individually engineered by you to fit your dentures and ability to adjust lower jaw for better body alignment to improve performance. Good for any sport.
Answered 11/18/2015
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Custom Mouthguard: It would be a good idea to get a custom night guard made without your dentures. This would help protect your TMJ if a punch was landed in the mandibular jaw area. Without teeth (teeth help stabilize you jaw relationship) your mandible has less bone support since the teeth were previously extracted. Example 20mm of bone with natural teeth now 10-15mm of bone remains without teeth. Less stability.
Answered 1/25/2016
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