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Oral Appliances and Athletic Performance

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Modern Sports Dentistry

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Abstract

Athletes are constantly trying to get an “edge” on competition. As seen in the last chapter, they will turn to dangerous drugs to get such an edge over their competitors to include steroids and doping which are used to improve performance. Dentistry may have a non-pharmacologic solution to this issue. This chapter will review the history and the future of such appliances and discuss their promise and possibilities.

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Garner, D.P. (2018). Oral Appliances and Athletic Performance. In: Roettger, M. (eds) Modern Sports Dentistry. Textbooks in Contemporary Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44416-1_13

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