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.

Tea GalićDomagoj KuncicTina Poklepovic PericicIvan GalicFrane MihanovicJosko BozicMark Herceg

Published in: Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology (2018)

Handball 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.

Keyphrases

oral health
high school
healthcare
machine learning
risk assessment
hiv infected
middle aged