Enhancing athletic performance: the critical role of oral health in sports
Abstract
Ferreira R O, Frazão D R, Ferreira M KM et al. Periodontal disease and sports performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Res Sports Med. 2024; https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2023.2235048. A comprehensive search was conducted across PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and LILACS, supplemented by gray literature searches using OpenGrey and Google Scholar. The search strategy combined MeSH terms and free-text keywords related to “athletes” or “exercise,” and “periodontitis,” “periodontal disease,” or “gingivitis,” along with “sports performance,” adjusted for each database’s syntax References were managed using EndNote X9, with duplicates removed. Eligibility screening excluded opinion papers, technical articles, guidelines, and animal studies. Full texts of relevant articles were reviewed, and additional articles were identified through citation tracking. Two reviewers independently performed the selection, with disagreements resolved by a third examiner. The study selection in this systematic review involved identifying observational studies that compared professional athletes with periodontal disease (the case group) to those with a healthy periodontium (the control group). The studies included in the review were required to focus on the effects of periodontal disease on sports performance, with no restrictions on the type of sport. Specifically, the researchers developed a PECO statement and conducted searches in online databases for relevant…
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