Wear a mouthguard if you like having teeth

"I've gone for 20 years without one and I'm fine!"

Yeah cool, odds are funny like that aren't they? It's not about the 99 times that nothing happens, it's that 1 time it does.

"Just tell people not to put pressure on your mouth/tap early/be careful"

I did a normal safe snap down and the blue belt popped up and headbutted me in the chin last year, needed 11 stitches. Felt the pressure all through my teeth across one side of my jaw. If I wasn't wearing that twelve dollar mouthguard I'd need thousands of dollars in dental surgery and hours upon hours in a dentist chair.

On Monday a brown belt headbutted me in the jaw on Monday. Twice. Just came back from Christmas break so idk he's a bit gangly, had ants all up in his pants, was a bit jumpy on butterfly guard and sprawls. He was apologising, but hey all good, it happens, and I'm wearing a mouthguard, who cares bro.

Black belt I know didn't used to wear a mouthguard for decades, big thick bull motherfucker of a man, neck like a rump steak. Just toughed it out. Got caught in a guillotine at training but he's tough, got his neck out and it was just across the chin. "I'm not tapping to that shit" and he grinds his head out, felt some grinding and cracking in his mouth but the adrenaline is pumping, he lives the porrada life. Gets out of the gilly, mouth is full of something. Goes to the bathroom and spits out a bunch of white powder into the sink. Cost him 8k to fix, in Australia where medical is cheaper than America. This was also around the time of his first kid, and he complained in the past about finances and kids causing his divorce, pardon me for making a connection here.

"I like to be able to breathe" Lol

"I don't like having teeth" Oh okay this is a solid reason actually