DHAT-delivered dental care vs Dentist-delivered dental care: Composite restoration deficiency
- Population
- Alaska dental health aide therapists
- Intervention
- DHAT-delivered dental care
- Comparison
- Dentist-delivered dental care
- Outcome
- Composite restoration deficiency
Composite restoration deficiency was 15% for DHATs versus 12% for dentists, without a GRADE rating.
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
DHAT-delivered dental care vs Dentist-delivered dental care Composite restoration deficiency · Alaska dental health aide therapists · Alaska Native communities Composite restoration deficiency was 15% for DHATs versus 12% for dentists, without a GRADE rating. Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) All outcomes | Proportion of deficient composite restorations 15% vs 12% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Clinical technical performance of dental therapists in Alaska · 2011 · 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.