Doctor Elizabeth Kilpatrick Fox on athletic mouth guards
Dr. Kilpatrick-: Mouthguards today are made very well if they’re custom, because they really need to fit the person, the teeth, especially our youth today. There are so many concussions in every sport, and if you have the custom guards – which are easy for us, we take a couple of molds of the teeth and they fit exactly to their teeth – it can help prevent the concussion, because they’re thicker, and the boil-and-bites, they’re not as good because they don’t fit as tight as the custom ones. So we’re helping the youth not get concussions with the guards.