スポーツ外傷予防のためのマウスガードの普及状況 : 平成5年度歯学体ラグビー部門参加チームにおける使用状況について

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We investigated the awareness of mouthguards (MG) among 16 teams, 268 dental school students that participated in rugby football dering the All Japan Dental School Sports Meeting held in 1993. 1. Over all 86 students (32.8%) owned a MG. 2. The use of MG 1) The use of the MG by students who have one of 85 students who owned an only one student (1.2%) always used the MG during rugby football training and games, 20 student always or sometimes used the MG (23.5%) during trainingand 36 students (42.3%) during games. 2) Student who used a MG in the past, but does not currently use a MG. Thirty-two students (55.2%) thought they should use a MG, but did not use it. Seven students (12.1%) indicated dissatisfaction with the MG causing a strong sense of incongruity. 3. Reasons for not owning a MG Fifty-three students reported a preconceived idea that an MG would caused a strong sense of incongruity, but 65 students thought it would be useful if there was an opportunity to use it. 4. Subjective evaluation of using a MG About 70 percent of students could engrossed ready-made and custom-made type. Degree of satisfaction one a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was an average of 47.8 points for the ready-made type and 54.2 points for the custom-made type.
1996-03-31