Intra-oral Mouth-Guard In Sport Related Oro-Facial Injuries: Prevention is Better Than Cure!
Published: January 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.3872
Sneha S. Mantri, Shivkumar P. Mantri, Suryakant Deogade, Abhilasha S. Bhasin
1. Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital, Jabalpur – 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India.
2. Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital, Jabalpur – 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India.
3. Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital, Jabalpur – 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India.
4. Sr. Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital, Jabalpur – 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India.
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India is rapidly assuming a more health-conscious posture. Olympic competition and professional sports have turned from mere dreams into goals. Many major professional sports leagues are expanding. Sports dentistry is a composite of skills for treatment, prevention, education and research in which dentistry and sports come together. Custom athletic mouth guards present additional health-care opportunities. They are designed to reduce the impact force of a direct blow to the jaw and create a gap between the condyle and skull thereby reducing the transference of the impact to the brain. The prevalence and severity of injuries to the teeth, jaws and intra-oral and peri-oral soft tissues, concussions and neck injuries are reduced when mouth guards are used. The dentist can play a proactive role in helping to deliver important expanded health care services.
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