2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Mouthguard, Prescription

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Mouthguard, Prescription LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#838 of 1000 · 584 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 584 reports
  • RANK #838 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 574 injury-typed
  • MALF 7 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 137
  • PHOTO Calibrator

Nearest event-volume peer: Calibrator, Multi-Analyte Mixture (2 report gap)

Mouthguard, Prescription sits #838 of 1000 among tracked device types with 584 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Mouthguard, Prescription carries 98.3% INJURY-coded reports, 68.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 98.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+68.0 pp)
  • MALF 1.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-63.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 61% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PRISMATIK DENTALCRAFT, INC. accounts for 94% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .

Mouthguard, Prescription in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Mouthguard, Prescription carries 584 MAUDE reports, ranked #838 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 574 (98.3%)
Malfunction 7 (1.2%)
3 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Other 287 (45.6%)
145 (23.0%)
Required Intervention 138 (21.9%)
R 33 (5.2%)
O 11 (1.7%)
Disability 6 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 4 (0.6%)
L 2 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.3%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 393
Insufficient Device Problem Information 177
Patient-Device Incompatibility 27
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 12
Biocompatibility 6
Patient Device Interaction Problem 5
Device, removal of (non-implant) 3
Device Emits Odor 2
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 2
Entrapment of Device 2
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 2
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 1
Burst Container or Vessel 1
Component(s), broken 1
Component(s), worn 1
Contamination 1
Detachment Of Device Component 1
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 1
Failure to Osseointegrate 1
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 1

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
03
2003: 1
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 9
08
2008: 6
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 5
11
2011: 2
13
2013: 6
14
2014: 2
15
2015: 5
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 7
18
2018: 71
19
2019: 62
20
2020: 46
21
2021: 111
22
2022: 137
23
2023: 62
24
2024: 8
25
2025: 7
26
2026: 23

Reports fell to 7 in 2025, down from an average of 35 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Mouthguard, Prescription

Event Locations

376 (64.4%)
I 200 (34.2%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Compare PRISMATIK DENTALCRAFT, INC. vs PRISMATIK DENTALCRAFT INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Mouthguard, Prescription carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (584 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mouthguard, Prescription are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Mouthguard, Prescription; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.