Mouth guard with breathing and drinking aperture

A method for passing fluid through a mouth guard, the method comprising:

• positioning a mouth guard within a user's mouth such that:
• a pair of spaced-apart molar receiving members of the mouth guard are disposed between opposing molars in the user's mouth;
• opposite upper and lower biting surfaces of the molar receiving members confronting the opposing molars;
• forward end portions of the molar receiving members being positioned in a spaced-apart relationship with one another, defining a fluid gap;
• an outer wall of the mouth guard is positioned so that a rearward surface of the outer wall confronts an exterior surface of the user's lips;
• an inner wall of the mouth guard, positioned between the molar receiving members and the outer wall, being shaped to extend along at least a substantial length of an outer edge portion of the molar receiving members and spanning the fluid gap between the molar receiving members, is positioned so that a forward surface of the inner wall confronts an inner surface of a user's lips and a rearward surface of the inner wall confronts forward surfaces of the user's-molars and incisors;
• and
• a conduit of the mouth guard extends between the inner and outer walls of the mouth guard such that the forward surface of the inner wall is longitudinally spaced from the rearward surface of the outer wall by a gap defined by a length of the conduit extending between the inner and outer wall;
• the fluid gap having a width, along an entire length of the fluid gap, that is as wide as or wider than a width of a rearward opening of a conduit passage that extends through opposite end portions of the mouth guard conduit;
• directing fluid through the open conduit passage and into the user's mouth such that the fluid flows along a linear pathway, which is coaxial with the open passage, from the rearward opening of the conduit passage, through the fluid gap.