Are all mouthguards the same and safe to use? Part 2. The influence of anterior occlusion against a direct impact on maxillary incisors

Dental Traumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 360-365

  Takeda, Tomotaka ^a   Ishigami, Keiichi ^a   Nakajima, Kazunori ^a   Naitoh, Kaoru ^a   Kurokawa, Katsuhide ^a   Handa, Jun ^a   Shomura, Masahito ^a   Regner, Connell Wayne ^b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Greenpeace Australia Pacific   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEBALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INCISOR; INJURY; MAXILLA; MOUTH PROTECTOR; SPORT INJURY; TOOTH INJURY; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; DENTAL MODELS; DENTAL OCCLUSION, BALANCED; DENTAL STRESS ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; INCISOR; MAXILLA; MOUTH PROTECTORS; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; TOOTH INJURIES;

EID: 43849094187     PISSN: 16004469     EISSN: 16009657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-9657.2008.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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