Timeline for Why don't MMA fighters wear Double Mouth Guards on both top side and bottom side?
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| Jan 12, 2022 at 22:35 | vote | accept | mattsmith5 | ||
| Dec 8, 2021 at 21:23 | comment | added | Macaco Branco | There's a bit of data here about the history of mouthguards and how they work, including data on how double mouthguards roughly double the difficulty of breathing over single. | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 21:22 | comment | added | Macaco Branco | I don't have the data onhand to prove it, but that's what I was taught, that teeth typically fracture from hitting hard surfaces. Outside of combat, that usually involves falling against the hard object such as the classic chipped teeth from falling into stairwells, or diving into shallow water and hitting the bottom. In a combat scenario where the face is not being forcefully introduced to surfaces, the closest hard surfaces are the other teeth. I have a vague feeling that the use of mouthguards is also because loose teeth can be set back in place, while broken teeth need to be rebuilt. | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | mattsmith5 | are you saying that most damage from teeth come from your actual Own teeth crashing together, and not the collision of the punch/or leg kick hitting the teeth? interesting | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 18:56 | history | answered | Macaco Branco | CC BY-SA 4.0 |