Question · asked by 1 review

Spirulina vs Topical aloe vera gel: Maximal mouth opening (interincisal distance)

Population
People of any age with a confirmed diagnosis, by clinical examination and biopsy, of oral submucous fibrosis (OSF)
Intervention
Spirulina
Comparison
Topical aloe vera gel
Outcome
Maximal mouth opening (interincisal distance)

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Spirulina vs Topical aloe vera gel
Maximal mouth opening (interincisal distance) · People of any age with a confirmed diagnosis, by clinical examination and biopsy, of oral submucous fibrosis (OSF)
Interventions for managing oral submucous fibrosis (2024) · Cochrane All outcomes
Patil 2015b (spirulina vs topical aloe vera gel): reported important outcomes but data not in a usable format; excluded from meta-analysis.1 studyGRADE not reported

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Interventions for managing oral submucous fibrosis
2024 · Cochrane All outcomes
2022-09Not listedNot assessed

The same intervention and outcome, asked in another population or against another comparator.

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.