Question · asked by 1 review
Osteotomes with mallet (Summers' technique) vs Rotary instruments (Cosci technique): Patient preference
- Population
- Patients undergoing crestal maxillary sinus lift
- Intervention
- Osteotomes with mallet (Summers' technique)
- Comparison
- Rotary instruments (Cosci technique)
- Outcome
- Patient preference
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Osteotomes with mallet (Summers' technique) vs Rotary instruments (Cosci technique) Patient preference · Patients undergoing crestal maxillary sinus lift · 5 months after loading Interventions for replacing missing teeth: augmentation procedures of the maxillary sinus (2014) · Cochrane All outcomes | Five months after loading, 13 of 15 patients preferred the side treated with the Cosci (rotary) technique; binomial test P = 0.007 (significant). Basis for the review's low-quality-evidence statement that patients may… | 1 study · 15 participants | 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 replacing missing teeth: augmentation procedures of the maxillary sinus 2014 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2014-01 | Not listed | Not assessed |
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.