An essential hands-on course for producing high quality sport gumshields

With Martin Thaden, Dreve’s Product Manager and Master Dental Technician (7 hours CPD)

The Signature© mouthguards system is exclusive to Dreve. Many international athletes and amateurs sportmen have been using Signature© mouthguards in their chosen sports for decades. Dreve have also supplied Signature© mouthguards to a variety of German sport teams for many years.

Aims & Objectives

This course aims at teaching Prosthetic Technicians, new techniques to produce quality sport mouthguards from start to finish. The participants will receive a Certificate of accreditation which will enable them to publicise the fact that they are entitled to produce Dreve Signature© mouthguards.

Learning Objectives

Dreve’s mouthguards unique safety features which protect the whole head (concussions), teeth, gingival, tongue, lips, jaws and joints. How on the make a mouhguard that fits perfectly and has no impact on speech or breathing.

Hands-on-course

• Quick demonstration on  how to use Dreve’s Drufomat scan thermo forming machine
• How to use the select the correct blanks
• How to produce the correct thickness combination to offer the right protection for:
  • Juniors: up to 16 years old (all sports)
  • Senior: for adults most amateurs sports (football, handball, basket ball etc.)
  • Elite: for boxers and other martial like karate, judo (with soft inlay for better shock absorption)
  • Professional: for stick sports, hockey, ice hockey, rugby polo etc. (with hard inlay in he anterior tooth area.
• How to laminate blanks
• How to use the Funky tool to recycle blanks and to create tailor-made mouthguards
• How to customise mouthguards with names, motifs and logos