Periodontal treatment (scaling and root planing, alone or with antimicrobials) vs Alternative (less intensive) periodontal treatment, alone or with placebo: Percentage of bleeding on probing (BOP)
Periodontal treatment (scaling and root planing, alone or with… led to lower bleeding on probing compared with alternative (less intensive) periodontal treatment, alone or with…; GRADE not reported.
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Periodontal treatment (scaling and root planing, alone or with antimicrobials) vs Alternative (less intensive) periodontal treatment, alone or with placebo Bleeding on probing · Pregnant women considered to have periodontal disease (gingivitis or periodontitis) after dental examination Periodontal treatment (scaling and root planing, alone or with… led to lower bleeding on probing compared with alternative (less intensive) periodontal treatment, alone or with…; GRADE not reported. Treating periodontal disease for preventing adverse birth outcomes in pregnant women (2017) · Cochrane All outcomes | MD -28.00 [-38.54, -17.46] | 1 study · 53 participants | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treating periodontal disease for preventing adverse birth outcomes in pregnant women 2017 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2016-10 | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.