mouth guards

Every mouth guard case at Dani Dental opens on the same intake form used for full-arch prosthetics: indication, occlusal loading notes, and sport or parafunctional category. That context determines material selection before fabrication starts. Athletic guards default to pressure-laminated EVA in 3mm or 4mm dual-layer construction. Bruxism and TMD nightguards run through a hard-soft acrylic workflow, hard outer shell over resilient inner lining, trimmed to the technician's fit mark rather than a generic arch outline. Dies are poured from the received impression within 24 hours of arrival. A named Dani Dental technician vacuum-forms to that die directly, not to a stock tray or population-average arch form. That single step is where most third-party guard labs lose the fit: they pull from a scan approximation rather than a physical die. Fit on the model is confirmed against a go/no-go contact gauge before the guard leaves the bench. For intraoral-scan submissions, Dani Dental mills a resin study model using the same digital workflow that feeds crown and bridge production. The mouth guard is then vacuum-formed to the milled model, which maintains dimensional accuracy within 25 microns versus a conventional stone die. Clinicians who submit via scanner can expect the same 3-business-day clock with no added fabrication cost for the model. Every finished guard ships with a fit-verification checklist: five occlusal contact points to confirm at delivery, one midline alignment reference, and the direct phone number of the technician who fabricated it. If the clinician calls with a fit concern within 7 days of delivery, the same technician reviews the case the same business day. That accountability loop is the primary reason the remake rate holds below 2.5% across all mouth guard SKUs.