‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?

Mouthguard use continues to be a hotly debated issue in the domain of contact sports. Regulations from sports governing bodies on wearing mouthguards and attitudes towards their use from athletes vary significantly across ‘at-risk sports’. We explore how recent advances in sports dentistry have led...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ahmed, Irfan, Fine, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Materias:
Viewpoint
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33500783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000828
_version_ 1783637598723375104
author Ahmed, Irfan
Fine, Peter
author_facet Ahmed, Irfan
Fine, Peter
author_sort Ahmed, Irfan
collection PubMed
description Mouthguard use continues to be a hotly debated issue in the domain of contact sports. Regulations from sports governing bodies on wearing mouthguards and attitudes towards their use from athletes vary significantly across ‘at-risk sports’. We explore how recent advances in sports dentistry have led to the widespread availability of new customisable mouthguards and whether their use may impact athletic performance, reduce orofacial trauma or sport related concussion. We also discuss whether ‘no mouthguard, no play’ policies designed to mandate their use may help to promote a culture of safe participation in contact sport.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7812105
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher BMJ Publishing Group
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-78121052021-01-25 ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports? Ahmed, Irfan Fine, Peter BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Viewpoint Mouthguard use continues to be a hotly debated issue in the domain of contact sports. Regulations from sports governing bodies on wearing mouthguards and attitudes towards their use from athletes vary significantly across ‘at-risk sports’. We explore how recent advances in sports dentistry have led to the widespread availability of new customisable mouthguards and whether their use may impact athletic performance, reduce orofacial trauma or sport related concussion. We also discuss whether ‘no mouthguard, no play’ policies designed to mandate their use may help to promote a culture of safe participation in contact sport. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7812105/ /pubmed/33500783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000828 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
spellingShingle Viewpoint
Ahmed, Irfan
Fine, Peter
‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title_full ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title_fullStr ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title_full_unstemmed ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title_short ‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
title_sort ‘injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
topic Viewpoint
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33500783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000828
work_keys_str_mv AT ahmedirfan injurypreventionversusperformancehasthetimecometomandatetheuseofmouthguardsinallcontactsports
AT finepeter injurypreventionversusperformancehasthetimecometomandatetheuseofmouthguardsinallcontactsports

Ejemplares similares