Chlorhexidine and xylitol chewing gum vs placebo (2‐week intervention): Infant dental caries
- Population
- Pregnant Alaska Native women and their infants
- Intervention
- Chlorhexidine and xylitol chewing gum
- Comparison
- placebo (2‐week intervention)
- Outcome
- Infant dental caries
No infant caries outcomes were assessed because the proposed randomized trial was discontinued.
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Chlorhexidine and xylitol chewing gum vs Placebo intervention Infant dental caries · Pregnant Alaska Native women and their infants · Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Trial discontinued No infant caries outcomes were assessed because the proposed randomized trial was discontinued. Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) All outcomes | no estimate extracted | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions and a case study on multilevel… 2013 All outcomes | October 5, 2012 | 11 | Critically Low / Critically Low |
Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Jolles et al. 2008 · included by 1 of these review
- Riedy 2010 · included by 1 of these review
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.