There is an article describing a study done on players wearing  half shields
and full shields in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  It's
very long, and you'll need to pul out your statistics textbooks.
 
Clay
 
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v282n24/full/joc90454.html
 
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