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Article: Fabricating an in-office mouth guard.
- Article from:
- The Dental Assistant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
- Author:
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Millions of children are injured each year due to their participation in sports and fitness activities resulting in a cost to the government and their families for many billions of dollars. Many of these injuries can be prevented by utilizing safety resources. Flanders reported when mouth guards are worn in football, .07% of the injuries were orofacial, whereas in basketball, where mouth guards are not routinely worn, 34% of the injuries are orofacial. (1) The degree of injury varied from simple contusions and lacerations to avulsions and fractured jaws. The National Youth Sports Safety Foundation for the Prevention of Athletic Injuries, Inc. (NYSSF) reports that dental ...