Custom Sports Mouthguards in Brooklyn: Protect Your Athlete's Smile  

Most fittings take less time than finding parking near our Sheepshead Bay office on a Saturday. We use a digital impression instead of a thick tray, so most kids and adults are done in one short visit. There's no gagging on goopy material and no waiting around. Once we send the impression out, your guard comes back ready to wear. We'll check the fit at pickup to make sure it seats right against your teeth before game day.

Bring your child's current mouthguard if they have one, even an old drugstore version. This lets us check how it fits against their actual bite and see if a custom guard makes sense. If your child wears braces, let us know ahead of time so we plan extra clearance around the brackets. Bringing a team schedule also helps us time the fitting before your first practice or tournament.

Not always. If your child plays a low-contact activity like solo biking or a casual rec league once a week, a drugstore boil-and-bite guard can be enough for now. Custom guards make the biggest difference in football, hockey, wrestling, and lacrosse, where hits happen often and hard. Ask yourself how frequent the contact is and how bad a hit to the mouth would really be. That answer usually points you the right direction.

Street parking near our Sheepshead Bay office gets tight on weekends, especially near game and practice hours. We suggest building in a few extra minutes if you're coming straight from a rink like Aviator Sports on Floyd Bennett Field. Since the fitting itself is quick, you won't need to plan for a long visit. Most families are in and out faster than it takes to find a spot.

Yes, a custom guard can be built with extra room over brackets and wires so it doesn't pull on orthodontic work. A stock boil-and-bite guard often locks tight around brackets during play, which can loosen them during a hit. Since braces shift teeth fast, we remake these guards as your child's treatment progresses. This keeps the fit accurate instead of protecting where their teeth used to sit months ago.

Most young athletes need a new custom guard every season or two, since growing jaws and shifting teeth change the fit fast. A guard that fit well last fall can feel loose by spring tryouts. We see this often with kids who play multiple seasons of hockey or football back to back. If your child's guard feels loose, causes gagging, or falls out during play, it's time to bring it in for a check.