A custom-fitted sports mouthguard is essential for protecting your teeth during contact sports and high-impact activities. Off-the-shelf mouthguards offer limited protection and can be uncomfortable, but a custom mouthguard made at our Southport practice fits precisely to your teeth, providing superior protection, comfort, and allowing normal breathing and speech during sport.
We recommend custom sports mouthguards for patients of all ages who participate in sports such as rugby, football, hockey, boxing, and martial arts.
Night guards are custom-made dental appliances worn during sleep to protect your teeth from the effects of grinding and clenching (bruxism). Bruxism can cause tooth wear, fractures, jaw pain, headaches, and damage to existing dental work. A professionally made night guard from Secrets Dental & Medical Centre cushions your teeth and prevents damage while you sleep.
Our night guards are crafted for a precise, comfortable fit so they do not interfere with your sleep. If you wake with jaw pain, headaches, or notice wear on your teeth, a night guard may be the solution.
A shop-bought boil-and-bite guard is shaped by you, over a kitchen sink, once. Ours is made from a 3D scan of your mouth by a dental laboratory a few minutes from the practice. That closeness is the whole point: your guard is not sitting in the post to a national lab, and if it needs adjusting we can usually have it back in days rather than weeks.
Secrets Dental & Medical Centre has looked after patients in Birkdale for over 25 years, holds a 4.8 rating from 179 Google reviews, and is registered with the Care Quality Commission. You get a written price before anything is made, and finance is available.
You can, and for occasional kickabouts it is better than nothing. The difference is fit. A boil-and-bite guard is shaped once, by you, and tends to loosen, which is when people start taking them out mid-game. A scanned, lab-made guard holds its shape and its position, so it is still doing its job in the last ten minutes.
Most people are told by whoever they sleep next to. The other signs are waking with a tight jaw or a dull headache, teeth that feel sensitive to cold, or flattened, chipped edges on your front teeth. We can usually see the wear pattern at a check-up before you have noticed anything yourself.
Yes, and if you play contact sport while wearing a fixed brace a guard is strongly advised, because an impact against metal brackets does far more damage to your lips and cheeks. Tell us what you are wearing and we will make it to suit.
A sports guard is usually a season or two depending on how hard it is worn, and a night guard longer.
Secrets Dental & Medical Centre is located at 147 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, PR8 4NT. We are easily accessible from Southport town centre, Ainsdale, Formby, and across Merseyside.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
