“…Although sports are undoubtedly healthy and a positive habit in the lives of young and adult individuals (Pereira et al, 2021), their practice can be considered a risk factor, among athletes from different sports modalities, for the occurrence of oral diseases (Castilho et al, 2022;Maffei et al, 2022;Tripodi et al, 2021). Their occurrence is related to variations involving ecological factors of the oral cavity such as salivary pH, flow rate, buffering capacity, among others (Tripodi et al, 2021).…”