FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF MOUTHGUARDS IN SPORTS PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE CONTACT SPORTS
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https://doi.org/10.15332/us.v7i1.1195Keywords:
Dental trauma, Contact sports, MouthguardsAbstract
Objective: To identify the factors associated with the use of the mouthguards in sports people who practice contact sports in the Santo Tomas University.Materials and methods: An experimental controlled clinical study was made in parallel with 50 sportsmen and women who practiced contact sports. In 25 of these a mouthguard was used. For the univaried analysis measures of central tendency were calculated. The quantitative variables and the qualitative ones were analyzed with proportions. In the analysis bivaried were used Chi2, exact test of Fisher, t of student or test of ranks of Wilcoxon according to the distribution of the variables.
Results: Thirty seven (74%) were men; the average of age was between 20.5 ± 2.0 years. Twenty seven (54%) belonged to the football team and 46% to the taekwondo. Of the factors associated with the use of the mouthguards, statistically significant association was observed (p<0.014) related to the variable difficulty to communicate, to speak, to gesture, to vociferate. It is possible to stand out that the difficulty to breathe with the slightly superior mouthguard was taken in the experimental group (3.0 ± 2.5).
Conclusions: Eighty percent of the sports people of 18 to 25 years of age knew or sometimes heard about the mouthguards but they had not used them.
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