Elite Athletes Possess Poor Oral Hygiene

According to the latest reports on elite athletes, some important and neglect things come into notice that they have poor oral health than most people despite regular brushing.

The survey and findings are published in the British dental journal where they underline the improvement as most of the athletes expressed an interest in changing their oral habits to improve their oral health.

The research team called UCL Eastman dental institute research provide dental check-up camp of 352 male and female athletes of cycling, rugby, football, rowing, hockey, sailing and athletics and measure tooth decay, gum health, acid erosion and found that nearly half had untreated tooth decay,large majority showed early signs of gum inflammation and almost a third reported that their oral had a negative impact on their training and performance. Researchers also asked them about what they did to keep their mouth, gums and teeth healthy.

Most interesting and noticeable things are the majority of them have good oral health-related habits and despite that 94% reported brushing their teeth at least twice a day and 44%reported regular flossing and this figures are higher than the general population.they all have a good oral health-related habits like brushing twice a day ,regular dental checkup, don’t smoke and healthy general diet.

After survey, researchers lastly found out the reason for this as many of them on regular use of sports drinks(87%), energy bars(59%), and energy gels(70%) which are known to damage teeth .all these beverages have sugar which increases the risk of tooth decay and the acidity increases risk of erosion.some of them face an elevated risk of oral diseases from a dry mouth during intensive training.

Heartening is that athletes were willing to consider behaviour changes such as additional fluoride use from mouthwash, more frequent dental visits, reducing their intake of sports drinks to improve oral health. The researcher will consider and observe them after this and publish their result.

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