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Sports-related dental injuries: knowledge of first aid and mouthguard use in a sample of Italian children and youngsters

Authors:

  • R. Biagi
    Department of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • F. Cardarelli
    Department of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • A. C. Butti
    Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • A. Salvato
    Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

ABSTRACT


Aim

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the awareness of sports as risk factor of dental injuries, the
emergency management when a tooth avulsion occurs and the compliance about mouthguards.

Methods

Two hundred children and youngsters 8- to 15-year-old (147 boys and 53 girls) attending Sports Societies in Isernia, a town
in Southern Italy, participated to the investigation. The sports involved were soccer, martial arts, tennis, swimming,
volleyball, basketball and cycling. The questionnaire was structured into three parts: 1) questions about age, sex, type and
time of sports practice; 2) questions about dental injuries, particularly personal experience, awareness of first aid and
procedure about tooth avulsion; 3) questions about knowledge and use of mouthguards.

Results

Sixty-five per cent of the
athletes were aware of the possibility of oral injuries during sports practice and 8.5 referred an experience of dental
trauma; 71.5 of the participants think that the immediate management of dental injuries by a dentist is very important
to increase the rate of success; 31 know that the avulsed tooth may be reimplanted: 33.9 would reimplant the
tooth within an hour and 62.9 would keep it in a wet storage medium. Finally, 80.5 of the athletes knew about
mouthguards as protective devices, but only 5 actually used them; eight out of ten were provided by the dentist.

Conclusion

Educational programs organized by the sports dentistry community are needed to inform coaches, teachers,
athletes and parents about dental injuries and to promote the mouthguards use, especially in contact sports
practice.

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Publication date:

Jun /2010

Keywords:

children, dental trauma, mouthguard, preventive dentistry, sports-related injuries, tooth avulsion

Issue:

Vol.11 – n.2/2010

Page:

66 – 70

Publisher:

Ariesdue

Cite:


Harvard: R. Biagi, F. Cardarelli, A. C. Butti, A. Salvato (2010) "Sports-related dental injuries: knowledge of first aid and mouthguard use in a sample of Italian children and youngsters", European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 11(2), pp66-70. doi:
Vancouver: R. Biagi, F. Cardarelli, A. C. Butti, A. Salvato. Sports-related dental injuries: knowledge of first aid and mouthguard use in a sample of Italian children and youngsters. European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry [Internet]. 2010Jun.1 [cited 2023Mar.21];11(2):66-70. Available from: https://www.ejpd.eu/abstract-pubmed/sports-related-dental-injuries-knowledge-of-first-aid-and-mouthguard-use-in-a-sample-of-italian-children-and-youngsters/
MLA: R. Biagi, F. Cardarelli, A. C. Butti, A. Salvato Sports-related dental injuries: knowledge of first aid and mouthguard use in a sample of Italian children and youngsters. European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 2010;11(2):66-70

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