What the Paris 1924 olympics tell us about promoting oral health for community sport - a call to action.

BMC Oral Health

Centre for Oral Health and Performance, Unit of Periodontology, Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, London, UK.

Published: August 2024

AI Article Synopsis

  • - Sport participation offers significant advantages including improved physical health, enhanced well-being, and reduced risk of non-communicable diseases, while also promoting equity and decreasing inequalities.
  • - Despite the benefits, engaging in sports can negatively impact oral health, leading to potential lifelong treatment needs and psychosocial issues, which are largely preventable.
  • - To maximize the benefits of sports participation and ensure equitable health outcomes, it's crucial to work with community sports organizations to integrate oral health promotion into overall health initiatives.

Article Abstract

Sport participation has huge benefits to individuals and communities including both physical health and wellbeing, prevention of non-communicable diseases, promoting equity and reducing inequalities. Sport participation can disadvantage oral health with a life-long shadow of treatment need and potential psycho-social consequences, despite these problems being preventable. It is therefore a priority to collaborate with partners in community sport to embed oral health promotion as one of the foundations of overall health in order to gain the most equitable and sustainable benefits from sport participation.

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