Performance:
Boost your performance – with custom-fitted splints for athletes that improve your jaw alignment and support coordination, balance, and reaction. For maximum performance.
Regeneration:
Recover faster – with custom-fitted recovery splints. They optimize muscle relaxation, support regeneration, and help you return to peak performance more quickly.
Your problem:
You give your all in training and competition – but one crucial factor for your performance often goes unnoticed: your bite. An imbalanced jaw position can trigger muscle tension, impair oxygen supply, and disrupt the coordination of your movements. The result? Loss of energy, reduced performance, and slower recovery.
When your body isn't optimally balanced, it costs you valuable strength, precision, and reaction speed. Your muscles don’t work efficiently, your balance is compromised – and your full potential remains untapped.
Our solution:
With individually fitted performance and recovery splints, you unlock the full potential of your body. They ensure that your bite stays in the optimal position and make use of the highly sensitive mechanoreceptors in your teeth to activate neuromuscular control. Depending on your needs, your muscles are either activated or relaxed, leading to improved coordination, faster movements, and optimized body control.
By specifically adjusting your jaw position, these splints not only enhance your performance but also accelerate your recovery. Your muscles work more efficiently, your reaction speed improves – and your body functions as a well-tuned system that supports your entire musculoskeletal structure.
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How it works
The masticatory system plays a crucial role in overall posture, movement coordination, and athletic performance. It is closely linked to the brainstem— the control center responsible for vital functions and movement patterns—both sensorically and motorically. Highly sensitive receptors in the periodontal ligament turn your teeth into precise tactile sensors that trigger and optimize muscular responses through ultra-fast nerve impulses.
This is exactly the effect performance and recovery splints harness. By guiding a targeted bite pattern, they stimulate neuromuscular interaction, stabilize trained movement patterns, and improve coordination. Depending on the type of splint, muscles can be specifically activated or relaxed, leading to enhanced performance, better body control, and faster recovery—for maximum performance in both training and competition.
Sports With Optimization Potential:
In 3 simple steps to your custom splint:
Step 1:
Consultation & Scan
In an initial appointment, we analyze your bite position and check for any potential misalignments. Following that, a digital scan of your jaw will be taken to perfectly tailor the splint to your needs.
Step 2:
Custom-made production
Based on the collected data, your custom splint is created. It is designed to optimally stabilize your jaw, relieve muscle tension, and enhance your performance.
Step 3:
Insert & experience full performance
After insertion, there's a brief adjustment phase as you get used to the new fit. Soon, you'll feel tension ease and notice improvements in performance and recovery.
Sebastian Adolphs
Dentist | Practice Owner
In addition to a deep understanding of performance optimization and recovery, we regularly continue our education at renowned dental clinics and universities. This ensures that you always benefit from the latest advancements in sports dentistry – for maximum performance and faster recovery.
My goal is to enhance the performance of my patients and promote their recovery. Through modern sports dentistry, we optimize the bite, relieve tension, and accelerate recovery – for better performance and lasting protection.
FAQ
Here you’ll find answers to the most important questions about our performance and recovery splints. If you have any further questions, we’re always available to assist you or feel free to visit here.
How exactly do the performance and recovery splints work?
For decades, scientific studies have shown that bite and jaw muscles have a direct impact on strength, endurance, and movement coordination. Specially developed performance and recovery splints help to specifically activate or relax muscles, optimize movement patterns, and improve reaction speed.
While the performance splint stabilizes muscle coordination, optimizes power transfer, and reduces unnecessary muscular strain, the recovery splint ensures faster muscle recovery, less tension, and improved relaxation during sleep.
Used together or individually, they help athletes utilize their performance more efficiently, minimize fatigue, and recover faster – for maximum control and consistency in every discipline.
Which sports are the splint suitable for?
The performance and recovery splints are designed for sports where precise movement coordination, muscle control, and recovery are crucial.
Suitable sports include:
• Strength & Explosive Sports: Weightlifting, CrossFit, Powerlifting, Bodybuilding
• Team Sports: Football, Basketball, Handball, Volleyball, Tennis, Table Tennis, Baseball, Hockey
• Endurance Sports: Running, Triathlon, Cycling, Rowing, Swimming
• Motorsport & Extreme Sports: Motorsport (Formula 1, Motocross), Skiing, Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Climbing, Surfing
• Precision & Concentration Sports: Golf, Archery, Shooting Sports, E-Sports
• Gymnastics & Acrobatics: Artistic Gymnastics, Parkour, Freerunning, Dance, Ballet
The custom-fitted splints support optimal muscle coordination, reduce tension, and promote more efficient movement control. This helps athletes improve their performance, prevent fatigue, and recover faster.
How long does it take to receive my custom splint?
After the impression or digital scan, the production of your custom splint usually takes 7 to 14 days. The exact time depends on the complexity of the adjustment and the laboratory process. Once the splint is ready, you'll receive it directly at the practice.
How does the splint differ from regular night guards?
Important to know: Performance and balance dental splints are not ordinary dental splints. They differ significantly from the classic models you may be familiar with:
• Teeth Grinding Splint (Bruxism Splint): This is usually worn at night for teeth grinding. Its primary purpose is to protect the teeth from wear and to relieve the jaw joints. However, a typical teeth grinding splint works passively as a protection and does not specifically consider the optimal bite position or body mechanics. It aims to prevent damage but does not actively improve your athletic performance.
• TMJ Splint (Functional Splint): These therapeutic bite splints are used for temporomandibular joint (TMJ) problems and malocclusions (TMJ = Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction). While they are also custom-fitted to relieve issues such as jaw clicking, pain, or muscle tension, the focus here is on medical rehabilitation and pain relief. A TMJ splint aims to restore normal function but is not designed to shorten your sprint time or increase your strength.
• Sports Mouthguard (e.g., Boxing Mouthguard): The classic sports mouthguard, commonly seen in boxing, ice hockey, and similar sports, primarily serves as protection against external impacts. It is usually made of thick material to absorb blows and protect the teeth and jaw. Typically, it does not provide a conscious performance boost—often it is more of a necessary compromise that can even make breathing and speaking somewhat difficult.
In contrast, new performance splints are significantly slimmer and more form-fitting. While they also provide basic protection for the teeth, their primary function is to adjust your optimal bite rather than just lying in between your teeth. In some sports, protective elements and performance can even be combined: With the right design, a mouthguard can also serve as a strength splint, thereby enhancing performance, as long as it is perfectly adjusted according to DGSZM standards.
How will I notice the effect?
Many athletes report noticeable changes after just a few days:
• During training: You may notice improved stability, strength, and reduced muscle tension in the jaw and neck area.
• In recovery: Less tension and faster recovery after intense exertion.
• Everyday life & sleep: Improved sleep due to more relaxed jaw muscles.
The effects are individual, but many notice an improvement after the first few training sessions.
What can I do if the splint feels uncomfortable?
If the splint feels unusual or causes pressure at first, there are several solutions:
• Adjustment period: It may take a few days for your body to get used to the new aligner.
• Refinement: If the discomfort persists, we can make individual adjustments.
• Wearing time: Start with shorter wearing periods and gradually increase them.
In most cases, your body adapts to the new aligner very quickly – the adjustment phase is usually shorter than expected.
If you're still experiencing discomfort after a week, feel free to contact us for a refinement.
Here’s where you can find us:
Holzgraben 1‒3
52062 Aachen
Opening hours:
Mon, Tue & Thu: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed & Fri: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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