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The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Together, the Community Guide and the Clinical Guide provide evidence-based recommendations across the prevention spectrum.

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Improving Oral Health: Preventing Oral and Facial Injuries

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These interventions encourage the use of helmets, facemasks, and mouthguards in contact sports to prevent injuries to the head, face, and mouth. Approaches include education, incentives, and encouraged enforcement of rules of play.

Task Force Recommendations & Findings

This table lists the intervention reviewed by the Community Guide, with a summary of the Task Force finding (definitions of findings). Click on an underlined intervention title for a summary of the review.

Population-Based Interventions to Encourage Use of Helmets, Facemasks, and Mouthguards in Contact Sports Insufficient Evidence
November 2001



Disclaimer

The findings and conclusions on this page are those of the Community Preventive Services Task Force and do not necessarily represent those of CDC.

Sample Citation

The content of publications of the Guide to Community Preventive Services is in the public domain. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Sample citation:
Guide to Community Preventive Services. Improving oral health: preventing oral and facial injuries. www.thecommunityguide.org/oral/injuries.html. Last updated: MM/DD/YYYY.