Question · asked by 1 review
Sealing using sealant materials vs Non-selective carious tissue removal and conventional restoration (CR): Lesion progression
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Sealing using sealant materials vs Non-selective carious tissue removal and conventional restoration (CR) Lesion progression · Children and/or adults with permanent or primary teeth, vital (sensitive) pulps, and cavitated or dentine carious… · Non-cavitated lesions, primary dentition Interventions for treating cavitated or dentine carious lesions (2021) · Cochrane All outcomes | Lesion progression reported narratively: Borges 2012a found 3/26 sealed lesions progressed after 1 year (split-mouth); not pooled and not GRADE-rated. | 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 treating cavitated or dentine carious lesions 2021 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2020-07 | 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.