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  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,122 Views
14 Pages

Development of a Wearable Mouth Guard Device for Monitoring Teeth Clenching during Exercise

  • Rio Kinjo,
  • Takahiro Wada,
  • Hiroshi Churei,
  • Takehiro Ohmi,
  • Kairi Hayashi,
  • Kazuyoshi Yagishita,
  • Motohiro Uo and
  • Toshiaki Ueno

22 February 2021

Teeth clenching during exercise is important for sports performance and health. Recently, several mouth guard (MG)-type wearable devices for exercise were studied because they do not disrupt the exercise. In this study, we developed a wearable MG dev...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,004 Views
7 Pages

Multi-Material 3D Printing of a Customized Sports Mouth Guard: Proof-of-Concept Clinical Case

  • Alexey Unkovskiy,
  • Fabian Huettig,
  • Pablo Kraemer-Fernandez and
  • Sebastian Spintzyk

A multilayer mouth guard is known to have the best protective performance. However, its manufacturing in a digital workflow may be challenging with regards to virtual design and materialization. The present case demonstrates a pathway to fabricate a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,937 Views
14 Pages

Dental Splints and Sport Performance: A Review of the Current Literature

  • Cornelia Popovici,
  • Ioana Roxana Bordea,
  • Alessio Danilo Inchingolo,
  • Francesco Inchingolo,
  • Angelo Michele Inchingolo,
  • Gianna Dipalma and
  • Ana Lucia Muntean

18 April 2025

Background/Objectives: Lately, there has been a greater focus on the function of the dento-mandibular apparatus, specifically on the location of the jaw and occlusion. Given the new potential insights, the current study aimed to comprehensively analy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,967 Views
13 Pages

Effectiveness of Protective Measures and Rules in Reducing the Incidence of Injuries in Combat Sports: A Scoping Review

  • Rastislav Štyriak,
  • Radovan Hadža,
  • Rafael Arriaza,
  • Dušana Augustovičová and
  • Erika Zemková

In recent years, much effort has been made to reduce the injury rate in combat sports. However, the question remains to what extent these measures are effective. Analysis of studies could provide evidence of the effectiveness of measures aimed at red...

  • Review
  • Open Access
164 Citations
24,933 Views
15 Pages

The oral mucosa, which is the lining tissue of the oral cavity, is a gateway to the body and it offers first-line protection against potential pathogens, exogenous chemicals, airborne allergens, etc. by means of its physical and microbiological-immun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,762 Views
17 Pages

Identification of the Regulators of Epidermis Development under Drought- and Salt-Stressed Conditions by Single-Cell RNA-Seq

  • Zhixin Liu,
  • Chenxi Guo,
  • Rui Wu,
  • Jiajing Wang,
  • Yaping Zhou,
  • Xiaole Yu,
  • Yixin Zhang,
  • Zihao Zhao,
  • Hao Liu and
  • Xuwu Sun
  • + 6 authors

As sessile organisms, plants constantly face challenges from the external environment. In order to meet these challenges and survive, plants have evolved a set of sophisticated adaptation strategies, including changes in leaf morphology and epidermal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,185 Views
20 Pages

Teeth Lesion Detection Using Deep Learning and the Internet of Things Post-COVID-19

  • Imran Shafi,
  • Muhammad Sajad,
  • Anum Fatima,
  • Daniel Gavilanes Aray,
  • Vivían Lipari,
  • Isabel de la Torre Diez and
  • Imran Ashraf

31 July 2023

With a view of the post-COVID-19 world and probable future pandemics, this paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT)-based automated healthcare diagnosis model that employs a mixed approach using data augmentation, transfer learning, and deep learni...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,612 Views
13 Pages

Emerging Technologies for Injury Identification in Sports Settings: A Systematic Review

  • Luke Canavan Dignam,
  • Lisa Ryan,
  • Michael McCann and
  • Ed Daly

14 July 2025

Sport injury recognition is rapidly evolving with the integration of new emerging technologies. This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate technologies capable of detecting injuries during sports participation. A comprehensive search of PUB...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
312 Views
5 Pages

In general, dentoalveolar fractures are a common injury seen in emergency departments, dental offices, and oral and maxillofacial surgery practices. These injuries can be the result of direct trauma or indirect trauma. Direct trauma more often causes...