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What do systematic reviews say?

3 questions · 5 findings · 2 reviews · Dental caries

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Direct composite resin restoration vs Amalgam restoration

Restoration failure · People with permanent or adult posterior teeth requiring restoration (parallel-group trials involved children aged 6 to 12 years)

Direct composite resin restoration may leads to higher restoration failure rate compared with amalgam restoration (low certainty).

3 findings from 1 review

Direct composite resin fillings versus amalgam fillings for permanent posterior teeth 2021 · Cochrane All outcomes
Follow-up: 5 to 7 years
RR 1.89 [1.52, 2.35]
2 studies · 921 participants
Low
Direct composite resin fillings versus amalgam fillings for permanent posterior teeth 2021 · Cochrane All outcomes
Follow-up >= 3 years · Parallel-group and split-mouth trials combined
RR 1.65 [1.13, 2.40]
8 studies
GRADE not reported
Direct composite resin fillings versus amalgam fillings for permanent posterior teeth 2021 · Cochrane All outcomes
Follow-up >= 3 years · Split-mouth trials
RR 1.33 [0.84, 2.11]
6 studies
GRADE not reported

Single-surface ART restoration using high-viscosity glass ionomer vs Multi-surface ART with high-viscosity GIC

Restoration failure · Children (2-9 years) with caries in posterior primary teeth

Single-surface ART restorations had a low reported mean annual failure rate (about 5%; ungraded).

1 finding from 1 review

Minimal intervention dentistry for managing carious lesions into dentine in primary teeth: an umbrella review. 2022 All outcomes
First 3 years · Single-surface
Mean annual failure rate (%) 4.7% (van 't Hof 2006) to 5% (de Amorim 2018)
Studies not reported
GRADE not reported

Multiple-surface ART restoration using high-viscosity glass ionomer vs Single-surface ART with high-viscosity GIC

Restoration failure · Children (2-9 years) with caries in posterior primary teeth

Multi-surface ART restorations had a high reported mean annual failure rate (17%; ungraded).

1 finding from 1 review

Minimal intervention dentistry for managing carious lesions into dentine in primary teeth: an umbrella review. 2022 All outcomes
First 3 years · Multi-surface
Mean annual failure rate (%) 17
Studies not reported
GRADE not reported