BACKGROUND: Injuries are common during sport activities, a part of which is also @entity130 to the stomatognathic system. According to the data from literature @entity99 are frequent, but relatively minor. World Dental Federation has listed basketball as a medium-risk sport in sustaining @entity99 . The purpose of this investigation was to determine incidence, type and severity of @entity99 during basketball and frequents of mouthguard use. SUBJECT AND METHODS: The sample consisted of 195 athletes who actively participate in basketball, 60 amateurs/non-professional and 135 professionals. RESULTS: A total of 2 265 @entity130 to the stomatognathic system were documented in this research; 200 (8.8%) of those @entity130 refer to the non-professionals and 2 065 (91.2%) to the professionals. The most common @entity130 are lacerations and contusions of soft tissue (a total of 2 208 or 97.5%), followed by @entity8495 (a total of 57 or 2.5%). Out of all recorded laceration @entity130 59.8% lacerations of soft tissue occurred during practice (12.6% amateurs and 87.4% professionals), while 40.2% of them occurred during games (2.5% amateurs and 97.5% professionals). Of a total of 57 @entity8495 recorded during an athletes career, in 78.9% it were the professionals who suffered an injury, and in 21.1% of them the amateurs. Out of a total of 195 basketball players only 1% (2 players - one professional and one amateur) frequently used mouthguard during practice and games, while 93.3% of them never tried to wear a mouthguard. Such low percentage of mouthguard use in basketball players reflects poor awareness and education of athletes and coaches, as well as insufficient role of dentists in education. CONCLUSIONS: @entity99 during basketball are not severe (80% lacerations), and therefore do not stimulate the use of a protecting devices even their use will totally diminish this type of @entity130 .

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@entity99 :: ('MESH:D056486', 'Disease') :: ['Orofacial injuries', 'orofacial injuries'] @entity8495 :: ('MESH:D018677', 'Disease') :: ['dental injuries'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['injuries']
@entity99 :: (MESH:D056486,Disease) :: ['Orofacial injuries']
