Orofacial Prevention in a Professional Football Team

Ilaria Bortone1, Roberta Furone2, Riccardo Savio3, Lorenzo Moretti4, Biagio Moretti5

  • 1PERCRO Laboratory
  • 2BTS Bioengineering SpA
  • 3R&D Solutions Srl
  • 4Policlinico of Bari
  • 5University of Bari

Details

12:00 - 14:00 | Thu 10 Nov | Maya Ballroom Foyer | ThPO.47

Session: HI-POCT Poster Session and POC Technologies Demonstrations

Abstract

This paper presents the preventive protocol we adopted on a football team before the season start to assess the functional activity of temporal and masseter muscles during Maximum Voluntary teeth Clenching (MVC). The results show that most of the players suffer from orofacial pain.