Prevalência das injúrias orofaciais e uso de protetores bucais em uma população de atletas que praticam futebol e jiu-jitsu

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Rafaela Amarante de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14028
• topic: Dental traumatism; Epidemiology; Sports; Traumatismos dentários; Epidemiologia; Esportes; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::PERIODONTIA

This epidemiological study aimed to investigate the prevalence of orofacial injury of two groups of athletes. The first group included athletes who were part of the Fluminense Soccer Club in Xerém, and the second group included athletes from different brazilian jiu-jitsu academies or who participated in the Brazilian Championship in 2011, in Rio de Janeiro. One calibrated examiner, with the help of the assistant, completed the forms of all athletes followed by the clinical examination of them. Group I: 260 male athletes from the Fluminense Soccer Club, mean age of 14.08 (SD ± 2.71). Group II: 315 athletes from a variety of brazilian jiu-jitsu academies, mean age of 26.86 (SD ± 8.99), among these individuals, only 10 of them were female. The prevalence of orofacial injuries found for Group I was 47% (n=122; IC 95% 40,94%; 52,99%) and for Group II was 74,6% (n=235; IC 95% 69,52%, 79,09%). When the prevalence of trauma was evaluated individually per tooth, it decreased from 147 injuries to 57 dental traumas in soccer and from 289 injuries to 93 dental traumas in brazilian jiu-jitsu. A lower prevalence of orofacial injuries in goalkeepers was observed when compared to the others soccer players. Most injuries occurred during the training period (n=42; IC 95% 26,59%; 43,22) and only 4 athletes used to wear mouthguard. The prevalence of injury in brazilian jiu-jitsu varied according to their uniform belt colour. Black belt athletes suffered more injuries (n=83). Athletes who trained between 7 to 15 hours per week experienced more injury (n=109). Most injuries occurred during training. Only 28,57% of the athletes (IC 95% 23,86%; 33,79%) used to wear mouthguard. In both sports, most of the athletes have suffered only one injury, and the most frequent type was in soft tissue. The tooth that was injured the most was the maxillary central incisor. These data reveal the importance of encouraging the use of mouthguards in contact sports such as soccer and brazilian jiu-jitsu, where its use is not mandatory, although the prevalence of orofacial injury is high.