Compliance of children and youngsters in the use of mouthguards

Dental Traumatology : Official Publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology
Vered MatalonDiana Ram

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the compliance of children wearing their mouthguards, and to evaluate socio-environmental factors that impact upon the usage of the device. Eighty children attending the student clinic of the Hadassah School of Dental Medicine received mouthguards free of charge. One year later, 69 participants and their parents answered a survey aimed at gaining information regarding compliance and comfort when wearing the mouthguard correlated with gender, ages of parents and child, number of siblings, position of child in the family, socio-economic status, education of parents and past dental injuries of siblings or parents. Twenty-nine percent of the children never wore the mouthguard, 32% wore it sometimes, 15.9% wore it when necessary at the beginning but stopped after one month and 23.2% wore the mouthguard whenever needed. About 68% of the participants still possessed the mouthguard one year after receiving it, 44.9% reported that they did not wear the mouthguard because they forgot and 42% reported that the reason for not wearing the appliance was because it was not comfortable. Seventy-seven percent of the parents were not aware of the existence of this appliance prior to this study. In addition...Continue Reading

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