title: Intra-oral Mouth-Guard In Sport Related Oro-Facial Injuries: Prevention is Better Than Cure!
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital , Jabalpur - 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India .
authors.forename: Sneha S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Mantri
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital , Jabalpur - 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India .
authors.forename: Shivkumar P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Mantri
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital , Jabalpur - 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India .
authors.forename: Suryakant
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deogade
authors.affiliation: Sr. Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital , Jabalpur - 482001 (Madhya Pradesh) India .
authors.forename: Abhilasha S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bhasin
keywords: Custom Atheletic Mouthguard; Orofacial injuries; Sports Dentistry