Are all mouthguards the same and safe to use? The influence of occlusal supporting mouthguards in decreasing bone distortion and fractures

Dental Traumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-156

  Takeda, Tomotaka ^a   Ishigami, Keiichi ^a   Ogawa, Tohru ^a   Nakajima, Kazunori ^a   Shibusawa, Mami ^a   Shimada, Atsushi ^a   Regner, Connell Wayne ^b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial skull; Bone distortion; Mouthguard; Occlusal supported areas; Safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DEVICE; FRACTURE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL INJURY; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

ACCELERATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BICUSPID; DENTAL OCCLUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEAD; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOUTH PROTECTORS; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 2942592796     PISSN: 16004469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-4469.2004.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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