Question · asked by 1 review
Powered toothbrush (any mode of action) vs Manual toothbrush: Dry mouth (xerostomia)
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Powered toothbrush vs Manual toothbrush Dry mouth (xerostomia) · Adults with medication-related dry mouth Interventions for the management of dry mouth: non‐pharmacological interventions (2013) · Cochrane All outcomes | Papas 2006 used a VAS to measure mouth dryness but did not report dry mouth outcome data | 1 study | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for the management of dry mouth: non‐pharmacological interventions 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2013-04 | 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.