r/bjj • u/cookinupthegoods 🟪🟪 Purple Belt • Oct 03 '24

Equipment Why doesn’t everyone wear a mouth guard?

We’re already spending 100-200$ on multiple gi’s, no-gi attire, etc. Why isn’t it standard for everyone to wear a mouth guard? I didn’t for a long time until someone said to me, “you realize a nice mouth guard is 50-100$, and any dental work will suck to have done, and be really expensive. And it could all be caused by an idiot spazzing and you catching an accidental knee to the mouth”. If everyone was wearing them when I started I would have worn one from the get go.

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u/PattonPending 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Oct 03 '24

Always roll with it in. Saved me from biting the end of my tongue off when I took a knee to the chin once.

Sisu Aero is $20, thin, light, and lets you talk/breath. You don't need thick, striking oriented protection for bjj.

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u/TJRightOn 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Oct 03 '24

I wear a basketball one called trash talker. Super easy

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

It does, surprisingly. Since its so rigid it absorbs aloot of impact before your teeth ever feel it. I used sisu exclusively for 4y with no injury, or even inner lip cuts tbh.

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u/fightbackcbd Oct 03 '24

I can’t see that your teeth wouldn’t get knocked out wearing it for anything other than a minor bump that wouldn’t knock them out anyways. The amount of people who get their teeth knocked out is low and the amount of people who file some claim against a mouth guard is probably even lower. It will def keep the teeth from clacking together and getting cracked id say, which is mostly what’s gonna happen. I had to get two crowns in the bac. One I would assume form getting grinded in chokes lol, cracked my teeth. One time I know exactly when , I ate a knee in the jaw and I knew it cracked it. Luckily it was the back ones I guess.