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Combat Guard · $169
Combat Guard is GumGear's custom mouthguard for combat sports — MMA, boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing — where getting hit clean is the point. It adds layers and thickness over Contact Guard's build, pressure-laminated over a cast of your own dental impression, and ships in 10–14 days.
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Built for your sport
Every striking sport below lands differently. Combat Guard's heavier multi-layer build is the one spec that holds up across all of it.
MMA stacks a clean strike on top of a grappling scramble — a jab in the pocket, a knee in the clinch, a scramble on the mat, with no break between them. That mix of striking and compression is why Combat Guard carries the heavier build.
Boxing is the purest test a mouthguard gets: repeated, clean strikes landing directly on the jaw, round after round, nothing to break up the contact. Combat Guard's extra layers are built for exactly that kind of direct, repeated impact.
The clinch is where Muay Thai does its damage — a knee driven up into the chin, an elbow thrown at close range, both landing harder and sharper than a punch. Combat Guard's thickness is built for that specific kind of close-range strike.
Kickboxing opens up the full range — hands at boxing distance, kicks at range, switching without warning. Combat Guard holds its seat whether the strike lands from a fist or a shin.
Fit, up close
A boil-and-bite guard remembers roughly where your teeth were. A pressure-laminated guard holds every cusp, every gap, every rotation — which is why it stays put when you get hit.
How it works
No dentist, no appointment, no boil-and-bite. You take the impression on your own sofa and we do the rest.
Pick Contact or Combat and design your guard in the 3D studio. Checkout takes two minutes.
A professional-grade impression kit ships to your door — putty, trays, instructions, prepaid return label.
Bite down for two minutes, box it up, drop it in the mail. The label is already paid.
We scan your impression digitally, then pressure-laminate multi-layer EVA over a cast of it — 2–3 business days in the lab, 10–14 days door to door. It arrives fight-ready, fitted to your exact bite.
Already sitting in a chair for a check-up, or you'd rather someone else held the tray? Bring us a digital scan instead.
Same start: pick your tier, build your design, check out. Tell us at checkout you're going the scan route.
Book your dentist and ask for a digital intraoral scan of both arches. Most surgeries do it chairside in under ten minutes.
We email your dentist the upload link the day you order. They send the scan straight over — STL or PLY, nothing for you to post.
We cast the scan and laminate, then ship. Same guard, same 1-year fit guarantee — you just skipped the putty.
The comparison
Boil-and-bite is cheap and instant. Dentist-made is precise and expensive. GumGear sits in between — dental-impression precision, at a price and turnaround built for athletes, not emergencies.
| Feature | Boil-and-bite | GumGear | Dentist-made |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $20–40 | $99 Contact · $169 Combat | $300–800+ |
| Fit method | Generic tray, softened in hot water and bitten down | Your dental impression, pressure-laminated over a cast | Dental impression taken in-office, lab-laminated |
| Turnaround | Off the shelf — immediate | 10–14 days, order to door | 2–4 weeks, plus multiple office visits |
| Lifespan | 3–6 months — softens and loses shape | 6–12 months Contact · 3–9 months Combat | 6–18 months |
| Combat-ready | Shifts loose under hard strikes | Combat Guard adds layers built for direct impact | Yes, with a professional fit |
| Customization | None | Full 3D designer — colors, artwork, text | Limited, lab-dependent |
Combat Guard $169 · Impression kit included · Ships worldwide · 10–14 days
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