Sheffield dental lab ‘champions’ bespoke sports mouthguards

Archformbyte, which produces a range of orthodontic products including snoring aids and its transparent C-Thru aligners, has produced a range of mouthguards for sports people that can be as plain or as eye-catching as the customer wants. This can include flags, team colours, or glitter effects.

Many sports, including cricket, boxing, ice hockey, roller hockey and martial arts, require participants to wear mouthguards as part of their safety equipment. These are made to measure for the sportsperson, and require different thicknesses for different sports.

Although many dental firms offer mouthguards, most don’t have a customisable option. General and specialist dental practice Smile NW recently used the service after running into difficulty with another provider, which couldn’t supply a mouthguard without branding across the front.

Veronica Morris, principal and owner of Smile NW, said, “One of my clients is a professional in the field of martial arts. He needed a mouthguard that didn’t have any branding on, as this could have caused him to be heavily fined by his sponsors. The other company wouldn’t supply him with a plain mouthguard, but I was able to order one through Archformbyte. This was exactly what my client needed.