Are you associated with the Gaelic Athletic Association, shortly known as GAA? Or are you a member of some club that engages itself in Contact Sports? Because if you are, then you know that recent amendments to rules and regulations of such institutions now make it mandatory for players to use Gum Shields. So are you wondering about what would be your perfect choice from among the various Club Mouth Guards out there? Hopefully you will get your answers here.

You may have asked yourself this question many times - Are there different gum protection equipment for the different sports? None as such, because all of them focus on the same aspect for which they came into being - preventing you from suffering any oral damage. But there are differences between their type and the materials used in their manufacture, which bring under the scanner aspects such as quality and effectiveness.

So, can you hope to wear a Boxing Mouth Guard for a game of ice hockey or Hurling? To begin with, the equipment in question was innovated for use solely in the sport of boxing. This was because the game rules awarded points to players on achieving a successful hit on the face, and thus had maximum need for such protective equipment. So, the gum-shields that we find today emulate totally or with same changes the term you mentioned.

So, what made other sports feel the need for these? As years passed by, more and more sports have felt the need for gum-shields or guards due to increased incidents of oral injuries. So, many amateur clubs and associations engaged in contact sports, like GAA as mentioned above, made it mandatory for their players to use mouth-protective guards. Failing to do so would mean that any injury received orally will not entitle them to medical insurance facilities from the association.

Since the formulation of such rules, companies which manufacture Gum Shields took to research regarding improving protection aspects of their equipment. Thus, other than the readymade guards which were cheap but uncomfortable, players had more options to seek. And what were those? Use of EVA or Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate as the core compound of manufacture give birth to €boil and bite€ shields. These would fit into each individual different dental structures, thus reducing levels of discomfort hugely, but being a bit costlier.

So, what would be the perfect choice for your GAA Mouthguards? Depends on whether you want to be able to play freely after applying protection. Nowadays, many prefer to go for the latest ones that offer comfort and are said to affect your performance in a positive way.