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Over time, dental injury patterns have emerged for contact and non-contact sports.
Hard contact from sporting equipment (e.g. cricket bats, hockey balls/sticks, ice hockey pucks, basketballs) or falls against hard objects (e.g. goal posts) result in more fractures of teeth in comparison to padded contact sports (e.g. boxing) which tend to produce more supporting tissue injuries and tooth displacements.

So-called non-contact sports have also been found to result in more than twice the number of dental injuries as compared to contact sports.

Sports dentistry can predict oral and dental injury patterns based on a number of questions. These can also be used to assist in determining which Signature mouthguard is most appropriate.

1. What is the sport being played ?
2. What type of sporting equipment is being used ?
3. What type of protective equipment is being used ?
4. What is the environment in which the sport is being played ?
5. What is the experience of the participant ?
6. What training methods and regimes are used ?
7. What is the participant's dental anatomy ?
8. What is the participant's gender and age ?
9. What level of competition is being played ?
10. What position does the participant play in team sports ?