The National Hockey League is the only sport with such a group. Only 60% of NHL players wear mouth guards, even though helmets are mandated. Odd, considering sports like field hockey and women's lacrosse have long mandated mouth guards even while fighting efforts to require eye protection or helmets.
Many teams have a dental office attached to their locker room now, completely equipped for any contingency.
When Gordie Howe broke in with the Detroit Red Wings in 1946, he scored a goal and lost four teeth in his first game. He didn't not lose another tooth in a career that ended 34 years later. "I learned to play religious hockey," Howe liked to say. "It's better to give than receive."
NHL players refer to dental damage as "spittin Chiclets."
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1 - mahercor
The hits program does nothing to prevent concussions. Any neurosychological device, software or program merely monitor the severity of the conucussion. That is why you need a product like ours to implement into the return to play protocol, Impact and such programs pinpoints the players who are having syptoms of jaw derangement. The Dentist for the N.E. Patriot has been preventing such truama for twenty five years. When the NFL's own statistics indicated something was going on in N.E , they dismissed. Players not only in the NFL are upset they did not know about this mouth guard three years ago. Crebet had four concussion in that time. Roenick, Lindros, Primeau all have had major issues and they are not alone.
Maybe Farve, Rothlisberger and many others should get a mouth guard from the Patriots dentist, he has had the lowest concussion rates ever recorded in the NFL. If his jaw was damaged, where the cartilage slipped he would be the perfect candidate, Farve had Orthodondics a sure sign his jaw has been displaced. Since he admitted having multiple concussions he is aware of the problem. Unfortunately for Aikmen, Staubach, Young and others they had nowhere to turn to lengthen their careers.
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