Cosmetic Dentistry Blog

High school and college sports are about to start and on the list of supplies your child needs is a sports mouth guard. This may seem like a simple purchase which you can make at any sporting goods store for a few dollars. But you may not know that this simple piece of equipment can have a dramatic effect on your son or daughters sports performance.

If your child is a college athlete, or competing at a high level in high school, you should consider the Pure Power Mouth Guard, a custom fitted mouth guard that properly aligns the jaw, putting the entire body in equilibrium. This means, the muscles are completely relaxed and no longer compensating to hold the body's posture together.

Now the muscles can release more energy, power, strength, flexibility and increased range of motion to the body. Even professional athletes, such as Terrell Owens and Olympic champion Michael Redd found a 30%-80% increase in their athletic ability when using the PPM.

It sounds crazy that a mouth guard can make you stronger, improve your flexibility and increase your balance. But this mouth guard, derived from neuromuscular dentistry, shows how connected your bite is to the rest of your body. The idea is to find the ideal bite position (where the muscles and joints are most relaxed) and build that position into the appliance.

If you are interested in better sports performance, playing to the best of your ability, request a consultation with Dream Smile Dental.

The Pure Power Mouth Guard. Everyday its use increases from recreational athletes to professional. And as it stands now it is sweeping professional sports. The mouth guard is the outgrowth of a branch of dentistry known as neuromuscular dentistry.

Neuromuscular dentists, like Dream Smile Dentists'  own Dr. Ronkin and Dr. Swartzman focus on a particular portion of the anatomy, the temporomandibular joint, or known as TMJ. The TMJ is the joint where the jaw meets the skull, and, is the possible center of many complicated problems that can range throughout the body. Dentists believe that they say that because the TMJ is a complicated intersection of muscles, nerves, tendons, and other soft tissues, problems located there can have far-ranging symptoms. Some of these symptoms are spine misalignment, shoulder, back or neck pain, facial pain, headaches with migraine intensity. On top of it all they say, as many as 30 % of the population suffers from problems in the TMJ, known as temporomandibular joint disorder, or TMD for short.

Because TMD can affect the position of the spine and can lead to muscle pain and stiffness, treatment of the condition can reverse those conditions, leading to an improvement over people's performance when they are suffering from TMD. The Pure Power Mouthguard was developed by Dr. Makkar. First starting this product on athletes since they wear mouth pieces anyway to protect their teeth, he eventually got amateur and professional athletes to try the new mouthpiece, and they reported improved performance. The Pure Power Mouthguard has said to improve performance even in athletes like Terrell Owens and Michael Redd.