British researchers at the University of Newcastle and Dundee Dental Schools found that the cheap standard mouthpieces on snorkels and oxygen diving apparatus are not only uncomfortable but can even be dangerous.
Why a professional mouthpiece?
Cheap standard mouthpieces on snorkels and oxygen diving apparatus are not only uncomfortable; they can even be dangerous. This is an opinion not only held by researchers at the University of Newcastle and Dundee Dental Schools. In practice, “off the peg” mouthpieces are often only a stopgap solution.
They lead to:
· Tiredness and dizzy spells
· Vertigo and disorientation
· Increased nitrogen narcosis
Dr. Ursula Krause-Thieme
Dentist at the University Hospital in Dresden.
During my over 40 years occupation as a Dentist at the clinic and out-patients’ clinic for Mouth, Jaw and Face Surgery at the University Hospital in Dresden, the number of patients with unclear, partly very strong and persistent pains at the jaw-face-neck area has been very high.
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