Ochronne szyny nazębne w profilaktyce urazów zębów u dzieci i młodzieży. Przegląd piśmiennictwa i doświadczenia własne

Wojciech Kowalczyk¹, Piotr Sobiech², *Dorota Olczak-Kowalczyk², Rafał Jankowski³

Summary
Physical activity in sport especially contact sports as judo, karate, box or with high risk of accidence for example: team sports (hokey, soccer, basketball), speedway, skiing, horse raiding, makes risk of injury of hard and soft tissue of oral cavity and skeleton. Problem of sport injures concerns especially children and adolescents, because their activity is high (plays, school lessons of physical education, sport activity in athletic clubs). In this paper authors showed an base of literature frequency of sports injuries in oral cavity area, status of knowledge about using of mouthguards by young sportspeople and theirs sport trainers, and frequency of use these in practice. Described disadvantage and advantage of mouthguards types which are recommended for people going in for various sport games. Presented characteristics of ideal mouthguard. Illustrated composition and laboratory steps of building, especially recommended, multilayer mouthguard. Underlined meaning of education activity among young sportspeople an theirs carers in mouthgoards using as prevention against injury of hard and soft oral tissues.

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