Question · asked by 1 review
Occlusal splint vs Palatal splint: Comfort
- Population
- People with sleep bruxism (tooth grinding or clenching); children (greater than 1 year old) and adults; diagnosis clinical, polysomnographic, or both
- Intervention
- Occlusal splint
- Comparison
- Palatal splint
- Outcome
- Comfort
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Occlusal splint vs Palatal splint Comfort (visual analogue scale) · People with sleep bruxism (tooth grinding or clenching); children (greater than 1 year old) and adults; diagnosis… Occlusal splints for treating sleep bruxism (tooth grinding) (2007) · Cochrane All outcomes | Occlusal splint versus palatal splint, comfort (median VAS 0 to 100 mm) (Dube 2004): occlusal splint 79.3 (SD 4.7) mm versus palatal splint 77.8 (8.1) mm; both rated as equally comfortable. No participant reported dry… | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusal splints for treating sleep bruxism (tooth grinding) 2007 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2007-05 | Not listed | Not assessed |
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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.