Knowledge and attitudes about sports‐related dental injuries and mouthguard use in young athletes in four different contact sports—water polo, karate, taekwondo and handball

Abstract

Handball and water polo had similarly high occurrence of dental trauma as karate, a high-risk martial art sport. Therefore, the classification of sports according to the risk of dental trauma should be reconsidered. It would be beneficial to make wearing a mouthguard mandatory in all high-risk sports, as well as in those with medium-risk for dental injuries.