Summary: Glidewell’s ORB Sport Smart Mouthguard offers athletes oral protection and performance tracking for sports metrics. Synced to an app, it provides insights into heart rate, movement, and impact to support high-intensity training.

Key Takeaways:

  • ORB Sport allows athletes to track key metrics during contact sports, bridging dental protection with fitness insights.
  • It is available for iOS and has a fast, four-day turnaround for custom orders.

Glidewell has formally announced the availability of its ORB Sport Smart Mouthguard. Dental professionals can now offer their patient-athletes a protective oral appliance that also tracks physiology and biomechanics.

Tracking Key Performance Indicators in Sports

Because ordinary fitness trackers can’t be safely worn during many contact and combat sport activities, athletes are often unable to monitor key performance indicators when it matters most. The ORB Sport mouthguard enables these athletes to track heart rate, monitor movement, and measure head impacts while training or competing.

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Each ORB Sport mouthguard includes a custom-molded storage case with built-in wireless charging via micro-USB cable. Once charged, the mouthguard can be synced to the ORB Sport mobile app for visibility into more than 20 different metrics, including step counts, active calories, heart rate, head impact regions, movement intensity, distance traveled, and other health-related measurements.

Engineered for Protection and Performance Insights

Designed first and foremost for oral protection, the ORB Sport mouthguard is fabricated from the same certified ERKODENT brand EVA plastic materials long featured in Glidewell’s PlaySafe brand custom mouthguards. However, its patented smart technology from ORB Innovations gives users access to fitness-related health metrics, providing health insights for those looking to maximize their performance potential.

“The worlds of preventive dentistry and fitness innovation are constantly evolving,” said Stephenie Goddard, Glidewell chief executive officer. “Glidewell is proud to help bring these worlds together and provide dentists a more sophisticated solution for their data-conscious patient-athletes.”

Ordering and Availability

Dental professionals can order the oral appliance as they would a traditional custom sports guard, by submitting a full set of digital or physical impressions to Glidewell. The appliance is then custom fabricated at the lab with a four-day turnaround. The ORB Sport mouthguard is currently available for Apple iOS devices only, with Android devices slated for the near future.

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