Question · asked by 1 review

Repelling-magnet splints vs Bite-blocks: Anterior open bite correction

Population
Children and adolescents (over 80% aged 16 years or younger at treatment start) with anterior open bite (lack of vertical overlap or contact of the upper and lower incisors); sucking habits stopped 1 year or more before treatment; excluding class III skeletal relationship, cleft lip or palate, or other craniofacial syndrome
Intervention
Repelling-magnet splints
Comparison
Bite-blocks
Outcome
Anterior open bite correction

What each review found

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No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 2 · 100%Very low 0 · 0%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Repelling-magnet splints vs Bite-blocks
Anterior open bite correction · Children and adolescents (over 80% aged 16 years or younger at treatment start) with anterior open bite (lack of… · About 4 months (treatment interrupted early)
Orthodontic and orthopaedic treatment for anterior open bite in children (2014) · Cochrane All outcomes
Could not be analysed statistically. After 4 months the open bite was observed to close in the magnet group, but in four out of these ten patients transverse problems (unilateral crossbite) were observed, which led to…1 studyGRADE not reported
Repelling-magnet splints vs Bite-blocks
Anterior open bite correction · Children and adolescents (over 80% aged 16 years or younger at treatment start) with anterior open bite (lack of… · About 4 months (treatment interrupted early)
Orthodontic and orthopaedic treatment for anterior open bite in children (2007) · Cochrane All outcomesearlier version CD005515.PUB2, superseded
Could not be analysed statistically. After 4 months the open bite was observed to close in the magnet group, but in four out of these ten patients transverse problems (unilateral crossbite) were observed, which led to…1 studyGRADE not reported

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Orthodontic and orthopaedic treatment for anterior open bite in children
2014 · Cochrane All outcomes
2014-02Not 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.