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Research has found mouth guards have become an integral part of a player’s equipment.

Properly fitted mouth guards help prevent oral facial injuries, concussions and help protect against brain injury. So getting fitted for a top-notch chiclet- checker was definitely a “no-brainer”.

“I’m glad to see so many young hockey players responding to this clinic,” Sign up f said Dr. Donna MacPhee-Brunet, one of the dentists who gave up her Saturday to help with the cause. “It provides the children with an excellent service that they may not have been able to afford otherwise. “I’m happy to see that mouth guards are mandatory for hockey; it should be a necessity in all sports. I am personally working on it for soccer.”

“Safety on the Ice and Safety in the Schools” was the theme for the day at Algonquin College’s School of Dental Hygiene.

Volunteering their time and expertise, 39 local dentists, orthodontists, dental hygienists, assistants and lab technicians handled the waves of boys and girls who passed through the clinic wanting to be fitted with their very own one-of-a-kind Ottawa 67’s mouth guard adorned with the club’s traditional, red, black and white. Every hockey player in the Ottawa District Hockey Association is required to wear a mouth guard so why not purchase a really cool one with the colours of their favourite junior hockey team? As part of the very affordable $50 price tag, each child also received two game tickets to the 67’s home game on Oct. 15 against the when they can pick up the finished product.

Mouth guards of this calibre are usually around the $150 dollar mark so the price was definitely right for the kids.

Net proceeds from the clinic were donated to the ACT Foundation of Canada to help expand the existing CPR training of high school students to include defibrillation. The Pilot Project will see several Ottawa highs schools receive a defibrillator and training equipment.

The Ottawa Paramedic Service will train physical education teachers how to use the defibrillators, which will then be passed on to the students, as part of their current CPR program. ACT expects to launch the program, early in 2007.

“Our goal is to distribute defibrillators in highs schools, rinks and community centres in every community throughout Canada,” said Sandra Clarke, executive director with the ACT Foundation of Canada. “The high school CPR program is currently in over 990 schools across Canada with over 900,000 students already trained in life-saving. We would like to make defibrillators as common as fire extinguishers and establish mandatory secondary school CPR across the country.”

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