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August 31, 2009 - Dental device helps reduce concussion risk for athletes By MARK KRAM
TO CLEAR UP any confusion that has surrounded the dental appliance he has developed, Dr. Gerald Maher stresses that it is only useful in preventing concussions up to a point.
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September 5 2007 - Military makes connection Ruptured Eardrum May Signal Brain Injury
An unusual study by doctors treating blast victims at a field hospital in Iraq has found that ruptured eardrums may help reveal which troops are at risk of hidden brain injury.
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August 29 2007 - The NFL's big headache: league forced to consider concussion
research
With the scientific evidence mounting, Tufts Dental School looks to mouthpieces to lead the way against injury.
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July 07 2007 - Update ESPN the Magazine
On June 19 in Chicago, an NFL summit convened members and critics of the league's concussions committee to brief team doctors and trainers on current head trauma research.
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June 06 2007 - An idea with some bite: Yet the NFL shuns advice that could curb concussions by Eric Mchugh, The Patriot Ledger
If you were a nationally renowned oncologist and you told everyone you had discovered a cure for cancer, you would expect that they at least would hear you out, right?
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June 06 2007 - Johnson's concussions an issue by Eric Mchugh, The Patriot Ledger
Dr. Gerald Maher’s Web site declares that no New England Patriots player wearing his patented mouth guard has ever suffered a concussion from a blow to the jaw.
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January 19 2007 - ESPN - See no evil? The NFL won't face concussion facts
Sad but true: You didn't have to actually read the comments by the
NFL or the doctors on its concussions committee to know how they
were going to respond to the Andre Waters case.
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October 28 2006 - "Doctor yes" by Peter Keating - ESPN The Magazine
"THERE'S GOING TO be some controversy about you going back to play."
Elliot Pellman looks Wayne Chrebet in the eye in the fourth quarter of a tight game, Jets vs. Giants on Nov. 2, 2003, at the Meadowlands. A knee to the back of the head knocked Chrebet stone-cold unconscious a quarter earlier, and now the Jets' team doctor is putting the wideout through a series of mental tests. Pellman knows Chrebet has suffered a concussion, but the player is performing adequately on standard memory exercises.
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February 13 2006 - ESPN - "NFL won't bite on dentist's concussion device"
by Peter Keating
Shaun Alexander is one of the fortunate. Some 20 minutes after being leveled by Redskins linebacker LaVar
Arrington, the league MVP wandered the Seattle sideline, unable to find his guards or tackles. Not until he spotted Matt Hasselbeck on the jumbo screens at Qwest Field
did he realize he had been knocked cold and removed from the field.
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President of Brain Injury Association Calls for Congressional Investigation of Brain Injury in the National Football League
The president of the Brain Injury Association of New York State, MICHAEL V. KAPLEN, ESQ. today called upon Congress to conduct hearings regarding the fraudulent medical research on concussions conducted, reported and relied upon by the National Football League in determining when injured players can return to play.
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The Patriot Ledger - MAHER MOUTH GUARD - Guarding our troops: Marines have their
eye on local dentist's invention that prevents concussions
It's a simple device - just a wire and two clear acrylic pieces.
But the Maher Mouth Guard
has prevented concussions for thousands of athletes, and now the Marine Corps is
hoping it will do the same for troops in Iraq.
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Tufts Dental Medicine Magazine Summer 2006
IT'S THE STUFF ESPN PRODUCERS DREAM OF SKATING AT FULL SPEED, hockey player Eric Lindros takes an opponent's elbow to the head. Quarterback Troy.Aikmen gets sacked, and his helmeted head bounces off the artificial turf. Centerfielder Johnny Damon knocks heads with a teammate shagging the same fly ball.
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Mariner News - Dentist's invention making an impression
It's every parent's worst nightmare. They're sitting on the sidelines, watching their son or daughter's sports game and observe him/her take a hard hit. They look on in anguish as the athlete lies dazed on the ground, surrounded
by trainers trying to snap him/her out of it. After a few minutes, the athlete is helped off the field, but is seeing stars every step of the way.
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Boston Globe - With mouthpiece, dentist tackles concussions
If New England Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch never has another concussion, he can thank former boxing champ ''Marvelous " Marvin
Hagler and Gerald Maher, his
Weymouth dentist.
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Dallas Morning News - NFL union's concern should center on improved health issues
An NFL labor war primer: Players, who make an average salary of $1.3 million, get 64.5 percent of the league's "designated gross revenue," which, in effect, is not so gross at all, because it doesn't include suites and concessions and merchandising and parking and those little plastic footballs.
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Mariner News - Femm Fan (NFL Live)
"Protecting our players is primary".
These words are often spoken by coaches, team owners, doctors and trainers, in the sports world. And in fact were spoken by Tennessee Titans Coach Jeff Fisher as he explained certain rule changes made at this year's NFL owners meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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University of Washington at Seattle - Study Links Brain Injury, Substance Use Disorders
New research shows a relationship between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and alcohol and other drug misuse, depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders.
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Mouthpiece used in football may also have a place in the performing arts, acrobats,
figure skating & gymnastics
In 1980, Dr.Gerald Maher, a Weymouth dentist who specializes in jaw structure and facial pain, developed a mouthpiece for prize-fighters to wear to help prevent concussion. The theory behind the idea is that the mouthpiece minimizes the shock from being hit in the jaw. Maher adapted the mouthpiece for use in football and has filed for a patent.
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Athletes involved in the
following sports are
advised to wear. Either the B-Protect Splint or Maher Intact Mouth Guard:
 Football
Hockey
Lacrosse
Basketball
Bicycling
Boxing
Martial Arts
Rugby
Soccer
Weight training
Wrestling
Our product is recommended for use with other head and mouth protection devices, such as a football helmet.
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