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Originally Posted by Soliak
INJURY PREVENTION
Mouth guards have a role in preventing dental and oro-facial injury but have not been shown to decrease concussion occurrence.
Even though a large portion of the hockey community has been under the impression for years that wearing a mouth guard helps prevent a concussion, Dr. Cantu offered up a simple explanation as to why that's not true.
"No study that mouth guards prevent concussions has been done," said Dr. Cantu. "But they do prevent injuries to the teeth so I would recommend all collision-sports players wear mouth guards."
I can post many many more links, but the myth that mouthguards prevent concussions is not true.
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From the quote, you can't say that the myth is not true. It doesn't look tested one way or another. Maybe your links have more info, but no proof = not proven. It doesn't mean not true.
Oh, and nice win for the Flames. I feel more confident about them playing LA than Dallas with the way they match up.