Not all Olympic dentists make it to Dentistry’s Olympic Hall of Fame.
“Sports Dentistry: buccal and salivary profile of a female soccer team,” G.R. de Sant’Anna, M.R. Simionato and M.E. Suzuki, Quintessence International, vol. 35, no. 8, September 2004, pp. 649-52. The authors, who are at the Biomedical Science Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, explain that:
“This study evaluated the salivary profiles (pH, flow rate, mutans streptococci and Lactobacillus counts) and decayed, missing, and filled teeth of 18 female soccer players (13 to 19 years old) of the Olympic Training and Research Center of Sao Paulo, before and after a training session…. [D]ue to the salivary flow rate reduction in this population with a high number of cariogenic microorganisms, noncariogenic drink ingestion at regular intervals and maintenance of hydration levels during training, are suggested.”