Once health and safety get further involved in the shooting sport we will all have to wear the new SMART mouth guard that World Rugby have recently introduced. Sideline medical staff monitor players via bluetooth and where their smart mouth guards containing sensors indicates heavy impacts to the head the players are pulled from the field for an HIA (head injury assessment). NZ rugby players are among the first to use these (compulsory) new guards not without some contention.

Shooting ranges may make it compulsory to wear such a mouth guard when shooting big boomers and shooters will be sent from the range for a medical assessment if their mouth guard indicates they are being knock around too hard.