Educational actions for when traumatic dental injuries occur in athletes

Abstract

Monitoring oral health is increasingly important in the sporting world, however, it is often considered the least priority in terms of regular check-ups, especially for athletes and sportsmen. Giving continuity to the research begun in 2015, in the period January 2022 to January 2023, an experimental study with a pre-experimental design was carried out to identify the effect caused by the educational actions on the level of information regarding the behavior to follow in the event of traumatic dental injuries, in a sample of 63 athletes and 9 combat sports coaches, school category (14-15 years old) of the Héctor Ruiz Pérez School of Sports Initiation School, of the Villa province Clara, the pre-post test comparison was carried out, two surveys were applied, one for the athletes and the other for the coaches, revealing results that showed a small significant change towards the positive in the level of information on the topic in the population intervened in both periods studied.