Question · asked by 1 review

Extraction of the primary maxillary canine plus cervical pull headgear vs no intervention: Prevalence of eruption/non-eruption of the palatally displaced permanent canine (successful eruption)

Population
Children with palatally displaced maxillary canines (at least 80% aged 10 to 13 years); trials with craniofacial syndromes or anomalies excluded
Intervention
Extraction of the primary maxillary canine plus cervical pull headgear
Comparison
no intervention
Outcome
Prevalence of eruption/non-eruption of the palatally displaced permanent canine (successful eruption)

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Extraction of the primary maxillary canine plus cervical pull headgear vs Untreated control (no treatment)
Prevalence of eruption/non-eruption of the palatally displaced permanent canine (successful eruption) · Children with palatally displaced maxillary canines (at least 80% aged 10 to 13 years); trials with craniofacial… · At least 6 months follow-up after the intervention
Extraction of primary (baby) teeth for unerupted palatally displaced permanent canine teeth in children (2012) · Cochrane All outcomes
Narrative (not pooled, not GRADE-rated). Leonardi 2004: successful eruption 80% with extraction plus cervical pull headgear, significantly higher than the untreated control group (Chi2 14.9; P<0.01). Baccetti 2008: the…2 studies · 81 participantsGRADE not reported

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Extraction of primary (baby) teeth for unerupted palatally displaced permanent canine teeth in children
2012 · Cochrane All outcomes
2012-04Not 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.