Question · asked by 1 review
Oral appliance or functional orthopaedic appliance vs placebo or no treatment: Side effects / tolerability
- Population
- Children with obstructive sleep apnoea (aged 15 years or younger)
- Intervention
- Oral appliance or functional orthopaedic appliance
- Comparison
- placebo or no treatment
- Outcome
- Side effects / tolerability
What each review found
Current versions onlyNo studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 2 · 100%Very low 0 · 0%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Oral appliance or functional orthopaedic appliance vs Placebo or no treatment Side effects and tolerability (patient self report) · Children with obstructive sleep apnoea (aged 15 years or younger) · 6 months Oral appliances and functional orthopaedic appliances for obstructive sleep apnoea in children (2016) · Cochrane All outcomes | Tolerability: 73.7% fitted with oral appliance (14/19 children) tolerated the treatment well and 26.3% (five children) discontinued therapy. Side effects: the included study did not assess this outcome. | 1 study · 19 participants | GRADE not reported |
Oral appliance or functional orthopaedic appliance vs Placebo or no treatment Side effects and tolerability (patient self report) · Children with obstructive sleep apnoea (aged 15 years or younger) · 6 months Oral appliances and functional orthopaedic appliances for obstructive sleep apnoea in children (2007) · Cochrane All outcomesearlier version CD005520.PUB2, superseded | 73.7% fitted with oral appliance (14/19 children) tolerated the treatment well and 26.3% (5 children) discontinued therapy. | 1 study · 19 participants | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral appliances and functional orthopaedic appliances for obstructive sleep apnoea in children 2016 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2016-04 | Not listed | Not 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.