Citation

Chapman PJ. Am. J. Sports Med. 1989; 17(5): 690-691.

Affiliation

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Queensland Dental School, Brisbane, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2610287

Abstract

This report shows that although 95.4% of players in the U.S. Rugby Team believed mouthguards provided local protection, only half wore a mouthguard. However, 90.9% of mouthguard wearers would not play without their mouthguard and 54.5% believed wearing mouthguards should be made compulsory in rugby football. Approximately one-third of the team had sustained an orofacial injury that required treatment and none were wearing a mouthguard at the time of injury. These and other results are compared to an identical study of the 1984 Australian Rugby Team, the only previous such study reported.

Language: en