Sports dentistry is defined by the International Academy of Sports Dentistry (2012) as the ‘Prevention and treatment of orofacial athletic injuries and related oral diseases, as well as the collection and dissemination of information on dental athletic injuries and the encouragement of research in the prevention of such injuries'.
Dental professionals may become increasingly exposed and involved in not just treating the elite sportspersons, but maybe more so, on a day-to-day basis, the amateur and social sportsperson. We know from the literature that amateur athletes have a higher chance of sustaining a dental injury (Papakosta et al, 2008). This may be compounded by the lack of strict enforcement in the use of protective equipment, such as mouth guards.
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