Knowledge and attitudes about sports ‐related dental injuries and mouthguard use in young athletes in four different contact sports: water polo, karate, taekwondo and handball

ConclusionsHandball and water polo had similarly high occurrence of dental trauma as karate, a high‐risk martial art sport. Therefore, the classification of sports according to the risk of dental trauma should be reconsidered. It would be beneficial to make wearing a mouthguard mandatory in all high‐risk sports, as well as in those with medium‐risk for dental injuries.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Dental Traumatology - March 11, 2018 Category: Dentistry Authors: Tea Galic, Domagoj Kuncic, Tina Poklepovic Pericic, Ivan Galic, Frane Mihanovic, Josko Bozic, Mark Herceg Tags: Original Article Source Type: research