Current decision making in prevention of sport related craniomaxillofacial injury is based on available data derived from surveillance and attitude based studies. The literature on this type of injury prevention lacks the high quality scientific design and evidence on which mandatory interventions can be based. Currently available prevention methodology can provide a better understanding of inj...

wo papers, one from Sweden 1 and one from Australia, 2 in this issue describe evaluations of injury prevention interventions. In both, multimo-dal community based interventions were implemented in defined geographic areas. Both face the challenges of evaluating a complex intervention, delivered in a " real world " setting and without a randomized trial structure. Evaluating injury prevention ef...