Dental Sports Injuries and Free ACC Treatment

Sports-related injuries are quite common in the arena of physical activities. It could be sprains, ligament tearing, broken bones or even stiff muscles and dental sport injuries.  

No less than five million teeth are shelved by their owners every year. Strangely enough, it is not the dental clinics or hospitals where they shelve their teeth. Instead; sports related injuries result in 13-39% of such avulsion of teeth. However the extents of injuries are often related to the gender, age of the participants and specific sports in which the person is participating.

 

Unlike the past modern sports arena is blessed with numerous protective gears. But most of the times the injuries occur due to negligence in using the protective gears like helmets and mouth guards. Also, even in less dangerous games like football and others elbow contact and physical collision can result in dental injuries to a person. Very often the speed of the game can also increase the effects of injuries and create a traumatic experience for the person suffering from the dental strains. 

It is, however, an established fact that adequate protection can reduce injuries of all types and especially dental injuries. Some of the educational institutions in the United States have made it mandatory for the students using a mouth guard and protective gear during practice sessions as well as games. With such mandatory provisions, the result showed a substantial drop in sports related injury rates. Such protective gears are especially useful in sports like cricket, hockey, ice hockey, and others where chances of physical impacts are greater with hard objects creating dental injuries. However, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends that mouth guard should be used for most of the sports events to prevent dental injuries. 

Many people are vulnerable to dental injuries, but the most vulnerable community is that of the athletes who can receive such injuries at any time. The vulnerability rates are very high among these people at around 55%-60% in general. Others are vulnerable too, but they are mostly related to unfortunate occurrences of accidents. 

Dental injuries whether sustained in the sports arena or any other involves expenses and, therefore, it is necessary making prearrangements for such exigencies. One of the best ways is getting free ACC treatment for dental injuries. This is a provision where the patient is supported with the cost of dental part of the treatment whereas for the rest treatments the patient has to meet the expenses. The ACC has set up amounts that they would pay to cover the treatment, but it would be good for the patient to learn about his or her eligibility for such support. 

Sometimes the ACC support for dental treatments will require prior approval and it would be advisable learning about them before getting the treatment for dental injuries sustained in the sports arena.