From club runners to elite athletes: the impact of performance nutrition on oral health
03 Oct 2025
Clinical Excellence Theatre
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Learning Content
The link between oral health and athletic performance is well established. Athletes’ oral health has been shown to be poor, with dietary components, stress related training and lack of oral health knowledge being contributary factors. The session will explore the role of the dentist in supporting elite and recreational athletes to enhance sporting performance.
- Understand the link between oral health and athletic performance, and the impacts on training and competition-
- Recognise oral health issues presented in elite athletes and how inflammatory disease can have a systemic effect-
- Support athletes from a preventative perspective and mitigate dental diseases by simple measures-
- Understand the challenges of behaviour change and ideas to overcome them.
Aims
To Introduce the concept of oral health and athletic performance and how this can impact on potential performance of athletes at all levels-
To challenge participants to look at the oral health of athletes in a different way to their other patients -
To look at the complexities of behavioural change and possible ways to help athletes/patients.
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