Playing football with braces - mouth guard?

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Son had a top fixed brace fitted this week. Being an absolute superstar and all going well

Due to play football this weekend and I forgot to ask if he needs to wear a mouth guard. Does he?? Googling tells me he should but is that just being ultra cautious?

In reality do kids bother? Can't recall seeing a mouth guard on a football pitch. Did yours?

Tia

Absolutely yes!
Custom made is preferable but anything mouldable from a sports shop is better than nothing.

I don't know about football needing gum shield, you'd be best asking his coach. But if you do, with a brace it must be a custom made one from dentist, please don't use a boil and bite one from sports direct.

Any contact sport requires a gum shield.
You definitely can use a generic one (from a sports shop) in the interim while a custom one is constructed by his general dentist.
Over the course of my career I've re-implanted many children's avulsed incisors ( am a dentist-hospital). Without exception, all those kids where this had happened during contact sports, had not been wearing any sort of gum shield.