Question · asked by 1 review

Any intervention to manage relapse: fixed options (labial braces, lingual braces, fixed lingual wire) or removable options (Hawley's retainer with spring elastomeric module, Bloore removable aligner, other Hawley's retainer modifications, Invisalign, Clearstep) vs no intervention or another intervention: Treatment time

Population
Participants who previously underwent orthodontic treatment, with subsequent crowding (relapse) of the lower front teeth (lower incisors and lower canines)
Intervention
Any intervention to manage relapse: fixed options (labial braces, lingual braces, fixed lingual wire) or removable options (Hawley's retainer with spring elastomeric module, Bloore removable aligner, other Hawley's retainer modifications, Invisalign, Clearstep)
Comparison
no intervention or another intervention
Outcome
Treatment time

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Any intervention to manage relapse: fixed options (labial braces, lingual braces, fixed lingual wire) or removable options (Hawley's retainer with spring elastomeric module, Bloore removable aligner, other Hawley's retainer modifications, Invisalign, Clearstep) vs Another such intervention or no active treatment; all interventions compared against each other in any combination
Treatment time · Participants who previously underwent orthodontic treatment, with subsequent crowding (relapse) of the lower front…
The review found no eligible studies for this question.
Interventions for managing relapse of the lower front teeth after orthodontic treatment (2013) · Cochrane All outcomes
No RCTs met the inclusion criteria for this review. After deduplication, the electronic searching identified 527 publications; after reviewing the titles and abstracts, none focused on interventions to correct the…0 studiesNo studies found

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The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Interventions for managing relapse of the lower front teeth after orthodontic treatment
2013 · Cochrane All outcomes
2012-11Not listedNot 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.