Poster presented at the 3rd International Congress of CiiEM - Research and Innovation in Human and Health Sciences. Campus Egas Moniz, Monte da Caparica, Portugal, 20-22 June 2018N/

Godinho, Catarina

Paredes, Francisco

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Introduction: The practice of sports, especially contact sports, may cause orofacial injuries anddental trauma. In order to avoid or minimize this type of situations, the use of intraoral devices, inmost cases is highly recommended [1]. Some studies suggest that this may have the ability topromote the sport performance on athletes. However, some authors associate the improvementsover the sports performance when using the intraoral device to the placebo effect [1].The goal of this study was to identify and summarize what type of changes occur on the athletes'sports performance when using intraoral devices (mouthguard).Results: Nine studies were included. The protective function of intraoral devices is widely studiedand tested. All studies used in this work compared the differences between using and not using thedevices. They also compared the differences among the different kinds of intraoral devices used,therefore assessing the influence on the athletes sports performance. The results of the studiesvaried. Some revealed positive effects on sports performance [1] and others demonstrated that therewere no significant changes in the studied variables [2]. There was no evidence of negative effects onthe performance of athletes when using the intraoral devices.The Influence of Intraoral Devices onSports Performance: A Study ReportPAREDES,FRANCISCO1; GODINHO,CATARINA2.1. MDFV em Clínica de Odontopediatria no Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz., Caparica, Portugal; 2 Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz (CiiEM), Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz, Caparica, Portugal.Discussion and Conclusions: The type of changes occur on the athletes' sports performance whenusing intraoral devices may vary from positive effects to no effects. No negative effects have beenreported. More studies are needed to further understand the effect of this kind of devices in thesports performance.Material and methods: The PubMed database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and B-onwas used as the main electronic databases to collect data for this review. We analyzed all studiespublished, from 2007 to 2017 using these online databases, with the following Key-words:“mouthguard”; “sport performance” and “sport dentistry”. We used Mendeley software forelectronic title management. Publications written in Portuguese, English or Spanish were included.References:[1] Garner, D., Dudgeon, W., & McDivitt, E. (2011). The Effects of Mouthpiece use on Cortisol levels During an Intense Bout of Resistance Exercise, (5), 2866–2871.[2] Golem, D., & Arent, S. (2015). Effects of Over-The-Counter Jaw-Repositioning Mouth Guards on Dynamic Balance, Flexibility, Agility, Strength, and Power in CollegeAged Male Athletes, (23), 50–5102.This work is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the project UID / BIM / 04585/2016.

The influence of intraoral devices on sports performance: a study report

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