Resin infiltration vs Microabrasion: Masking effect / color improvement
- Population
- Patients with white spot lesions or developmental enamel defects
- Intervention
- Resin infiltration
- Comparison
- Microabrasion
- Outcome
- Masking effect / color improvement
Two studies compared resin infiltration with microabrasion, but no pooled or comparative effect estimate was reported (ungraded).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Resin infiltration vs Microabrasion Masking effect / color improvement · Patients with white spot lesions or developmental enamel defects Two studies compared resin infiltration with microabrasion, but no pooled or comparative effect estimate was reported (ungraded). Efficacy of resin infiltration to mask post-orthodontic or non-post-orthodontic white spot lesions or… (2021) All outcomes | no estimate extracted | 2 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Efficacy of resin infiltration to mask post-orthodontic or non-post-orthodontic white spot lesions or fluorosis - a systematic review and… 2021 All outcomes | Not specified | 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.
- A comparison of the effectiveness of resin infiltration and microabrasion treatments applied to developmental enamel defects in color… · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Esthetic improvements of postorthodontic white-spot lesions treated with resin infiltration and microabrasion: A split-mouth, randomized… · 2019 · 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.