Abstract
In recent years, various kinds of sports populations of youths and elders are dramatically increasing. In order that these support population can participate in a sport more happily and more safely, we have to take the safety measures for preventing serious injury of the oral maxillofacial region. Especially, for contact sports, mouth-guards, shoulder pads, leg-guards, tapings are need to be equipped as a protector for traumatic injury, It was reported that mouth-guards were useful not only to prevent injury, but to improve sport capability, and a relationship between the physiological function of the oral maxillofacial region and physical activity came to attract attention. In this paper, I will discuss the present status and the future view of sports dentistry, such as the efficacy of mouth-guards and occlusal relation on physical capability, based on the previous scientific reports and articles related to sports dentistry.
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