The Benefits of Mouth Guards

After the NFL commissioner came under scrutiny from Washington lawmakers on whether or not the injuries in his sport were the cause of traumatic brain disease. The commissioner enacted a policy that players had to pass a series of test by a neurologist prior to them being allowed to return to play( Grove, J) This policy change is similar to a normal employee passing a physical from their primary Doctor before they could return to work. The Commissioner enacted this policy to prevent players from returning to the game to soon. The current NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wasn’t the first recognize that his sport had a problem taking care of its players. In 1962 the rule of no “Face masking” was enacted. This rule prohibited a player from grabbing another player’s facemask (Grove, J 657). In the late 1970’s an additional rule was enacted. The NFL finally passed a rule prohibiting players from using their helmets to

MMA is a serious sport that leaves many athletes in critical condition whether it is after a match or later in retirement. They have a great risk of head trauma. The main goal of MMA is to physically harm the opponent. In the end of the match on will be leaving with head injuries. Today researchers are taking serious attention to head trauma. About 900 people in boxing have died because of trauma to the head (“Boxing Regulation”). This does not include people that have died after they have retired, and their cause of death was from early years of boxing.

A mouth is the most overlooked item while a hockey player dresses for a game. According to Sports Med February 2007 the article entitled “Mouthguards in Sports Activities” states, “Mouth guards reduce the likelihood of concussion due to a direct blow to the lower jaw bone by positioning the jaw to absorb impact forces that would normally be transmitted through the base of the skull and into the brain.”

American football has been a well-known sport for over 140 years. The first college game ever played was between the Rutgers and Princeton. Little did they know about the risk that occurs when playing a physical contact sport. Some common risk that is associated with playing football is the chance of experience a concussion, disabilities caused by brain damage and sometimes death. In the essay “Would Football Without Concussions Still Be Football” written by Nina Burleigh, she discusses that it’s important to implement tougher rules to protect the safety of young football athletes to keep them safe from concussions. In other words, American football is better played when physical contact is not in place because it will protect football players

Barnett argues “Live contact during regular season and postseason practises will be allowed no more than three days a week and limited to no more than 30 minutes a day and a total of no more than 80 minutes a week. Contact also is not allowed on more than two consecutive days.”(Barnett, pg1) This will help decrease the number of concussions in children and teens in sports. Although it is not a way to prevent them it is still a serious injury that people of all ages should be cautious about. (HELMETS IN SPORTS) “Helmet use in sports spans such varied activities as race-car driving, motorcycling, baseball, hockey, football, lacrosse, equestrian activities, and bicycling. The substantial increase in helmet use is a tribute to the consumer's concern for safety, society's interest in minimizing serious injury, and the helmet industry's efforts to produce acceptable products. Generally speaking, however, helmet safety design has evolved slowly”(Coben, 1). Helmets in sports are the most important tool for protection from concussions. Even though concussions are not 100% preventable schools should pay the extra money to get the safest helmets. Helmet safety is evolving and there are new helmets specifically for concussions. “Forty-one states and Washington, DC, have youth sports TBI laws that require coaches and teams to remove young athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a TBI, and all of those states but Wisconsin and Ohio require

On November 6th, 1869 the young American sport called football was born. In 1903, the addition of the football helmet was introduced; however, the helmet was not mandatory for all players until 1943 (“History of the”). Since the mandatory protocol for the use of helmets, the football helmet has advanced in safety. The helmet evolved from a plastic shell-shaped helmet to a more protective rounded plastic helmet with a face mask and chin strap. After those improvements, the modifications for safety increased. Today, professional football players have impact indicators on their chin straps to identify head injuries. As players have gotten bigger and stronger, head injury awareness is a major part of player’s safety and if they are not aware, it often results in a concussion. Many players and viewers of the game do not know how concussions occur, what the effects are, and how engineers and associations try to prevent the occurrence.

The NFL has changed equipment a lot over the years to protect professional football players. “Helmets protect and prevent Players from getting a concussion or head

Florida’s decision brought a lot of outcry within many high school teams and even US Lacrosse. A mandate in only 1 state had US Lacrosse in a bind because they could not all of the sudden mandate headgear across the country, and they could not force Florida to repeal the decision as it was a statewide vote. Not only did they mandate a helmet,--that they had not tested--they had changed the rules in all of Florida to be more lax on the yellow card rule (“Why Women 's”). This new headgear was a 10 millimeter thick headband that had to be worn under the girl 's goggles. Many of the high school players spoke out against these protective headbands saying that all they were doing was creating distraction (Pennington). It got in the way of their goggles, was flimsy, and continually fell off during game play which caused discontent from officials as well. These headbands have been criticized because they only cover a very small portion of the girls head and have not been very successful in decreasing the number of concussions. In fact, some argue it could even have made the rate of concussions rise. Ann Carpenetti, Vice President of lacrosse operations at US Lacrosse, called the headgear decision in Florida “irresponsible” and continued by saying that Florida’s

There is a lot of rising controversy surrounding minors and high-impact sports like football. From Elementary age kids playing little league to high school football, an increasing number of studies are surfacing that are showing many negative effects surrounding head trauma. Some experts are even calling for the sport to be banned from middle and high schools. The concerns surrounding head trauma have existed in the NFL for numerous year, and these concerns brought foreword extensive new research in detection, effects, and prevention. Even today the NFL plans to spend 100 million dollars on new prevention and treatment options for concussions. The shock absorption technology used in football helmets has made advanced majorly in the last 10 years, yet concussion rates are increasing. With the risk of head trauma having long term consequences, especially in minors with developing brains, the ideas of terminating the sport take root. Although serious, these risks are far outweighed by the benefits of football that a substitute sport can not provide: The answer to how to make football safer for minors is much simpler and cheaper than advancing technology.

At games there has to be a medical professional that is licensed on the side lines of the field. If they get head trauma they are checked and can not continue to play, when they get back to exercising they have to be supervised and approved by athletic trainer to return to the sport before a physician can tell them they can go back to the sport. Helmets eliminate the risk of getting a concussion.

Playing football is not like playing other sports. Athletes in all kinds of sports risk injuring themselves, but in football, a lot of the risk comes from other athletes. While there are many ways to be injured playing football, one of the worst is head-to-head targeting. This has been a problem in football since the beginning of the game, especially, when equipment was not very protective. Over the past eight years, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented rules and penalties specifically designed to protect players and to hopefully reduce the number of bad head injuries (Marshall). The NCAA is doing the right thing by protecting players from severe injury by calling and enforcing targeting penalties.

The first big issue is that players are all geared up, to the teeth, literally. From helmets to neck guards to mouth guards, we don’t expect that any amount of force is going to cause enough trauma to cause any damage. But

The NHL has had to change many rules in their league in order to have their players continue being safe. In 1959, Jacques Plante was the first goalie to wear a face mask. He received a blow to the face by a puck, it caused his lip to split, and he bled everywhere. He came back with a cream-colored mask and told the coach that if he couldn’t wear the mask, he refused to play. Although he was made fun of by reporters, fans, teammates etc. he continued to wear his mask and stated that he already had broken his nose, jaw, cheekbones and had countless of stitches in his head due to injuries. It wasn’t until 1979 that the NHL made their helmets mandatory, and unfortunately many had experienced severe injuries from playing this sport. This wasn’t the first change that happened in order to ensure safety of the public and players. In 2002, a spectator named Brittany Cecil, died at an NHL game due to a puck flying over the glass and hitting her. This caused the NHL to have to change their arena layouts and have netting above the glass. In addition to this change, in 2011, the NHL passed new rules governing hits to the head and his behind due to the increase of concussions in the game.

With fondness, I will always remember when I first began to consider dentistry as a future profession. My childhood mentor Dr. Spigner was having a weekend workshop for his patients, at this moment, I was exposed to dental education at its full capacity. While there we learned how to properly brush and floss our teeth, the benefits of tooth hygiene, and how fillings are applied to adolescent teeth. After learning these helpful tips, I wanted to share my newfound information about the importance of

A mouth guard is widely used for the protection of the gums and teeth from any sort of injury. The mouth guard has high tensile strength and it is because of the lamination of two layers of soft EVA. These mouth guard material are available in different colors and can be custom made.