CMD - HB - Sportzahnmedizin 1 2025.10.15
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Sports dentistry - training with a bite!

Sports dentistry is a new field of dentistry and is specifically dedicated to competitive athletes and ambitious recreational athletes.

Restoration of performance and protection against incorrect strain

CMD - Reference - Sailor Nik Aaron Willim
Successful treatment of professional sailor Nik Aaron Willim. If you would like to know whether we can help you too, please contact us.

Athletes sometimes suffer from craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD), which impairs their athletic performance. Through appropriate diagnostics and functional therapy treatments, we can help you avoid additional damage caused by overloading and regain your athletic performance.

Competitive athletes with craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD) not only suffer from CMD, but often also from limitations in their athletic performance. This is caused either by muscular headaches and facial pain or by pain in the temporomandibular joint when biting together. If you are affected by this, we can help to stabilize the function of the masticatory organ (craniomandibular system, CMS) with functional therapy treatment. In this way, we help you to be able to play sport again without any impairment and without suffering any additional health disadvantages.

If, on the other hand, you only suffer from bruxism, we could improve your performance by treating it - because a study among professional golfers showed that athletes with bruxism achieved poorer training results.

Our aim in various cases is to first analyze the type of craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD) or bruxism through functional diagnostics and to stabilize your functional situation on this basis - so that you can smash, board, tee off or putt again without discomfort.

Once the function of your masticatory organ has been stabilized, nothing stands in the way of performance-optimizing sports medical care. We will be happy to accompany you on your way to the top!

Performance enhancement with performance splints for top athletes

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We support patients without functional impairments in their performance with special performance splints.

Competitive athletes and very well-trained recreational athletes can achieve higher performance in certain functions with our sports dentistry support. This includes shoulder-arm strength and its activation, for example in handball, football, field hockey and other ball sports. A prominent example from football: Manuel Neuer has opted for this. Evidence has also been published that it increases the performance of professional golfers.

And according to our own experience, strength athletes also benefit from the mobilization of strength reserves from the masticatory organ. From a sports medicine perspective, this is not surprising: the anterior functional chain is closed by biting down on the performance splint.

The prerequisite for this is a thorough functional diagnostic examination, on the basis of which we can design and manufacture performance splints specially adapted to your individual situation.

We are familiar with this - please let us know when you register that you are interested in sports dental care for your sport.

Protection against sports injuries in the jaw area

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Field hockey, soccer and other contact sports are associated with a significant risk of sports injuries to the mouth and jaw. If you play these sports, contact us – we can protect you with a professional sports mouthguard.

Ball and contact sports such as field hockey, handball, soccer and martial arts pose a considerable risk of injuries to the mouth and jaw. The number of such injuries is high and the consequences are often serious. This does not have to be the case, as special sports mouthguard systems have been developed to protect against injuries in the mouth and jaw area.

The range is divided into boil-and-bite products, i.e. industrially manufactured products that are adapted to the individual situation by heating and placing in the mouth. Studies show that although this type of face mask is often used, it is worn less frequently. This is due to the restriction of breathing on the one hand and the impairment of athletic performance on the other due to the fact that the bite is usually not really correctly adjusted. The level of protection provided by these systems is also limited.

Custom-made mouthguards based on a dental model and adapted to your physical situation, on the other hand, do not impair breathing and have no negative effects on your performance - on the contrary, with a good fit, it is sometimes even possible to improve your performance. Above all, however, the protective effect of such custom-made sports mouthguards is incomparably greater. We offer splint systems from two of the world's leading manufacturers, Scheu and Erkodent, and specialize in functional adaptation to your individual situation. And if you come to us with your teammates, we can also organize the right club colors for you. Let it rip - but not your front teeth ...