Amount of crowding · Children or adolescents (aged 16 years old or under) receiving orthodontic treatment to prevent or correct crowded teeth
It is very uncertain whether lacebacks with fixed appliances changes amount of crowding (change) at 6 months compared with fixed appliances only (control) (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Dental caries prevalence · Healthy children and adolescents in the United Arab Emirates
Dental caries is highly prevalent among children and adolescents in the UAE, ranging from 22% to 99.4% across cross-sectional studies (narrative synthesis; not GRADE-rated).
1 finding from 1 review
Molar expansion · Children and adults with a posterior crossbite, without a Class III skeletal relationship, cleft lip or palate (or both), or other…
Removable tooth-borne expansion (expansion plate) probably leads to higher molar expansion (inter-molar distance) compared with observation (no treatment) (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Costs and cost‐effectiveness · Young people aged 9 to 14 years diagnosed with one or both palatally displaced permanent maxillary canines (PDC)
The review found no eligible studies for this question.
1 finding from 1 review
Intervention not reported
Dental caries prevalence · General population (children and adults) in East Africa
Caries prevalence in mixed dentition (6-12 years) was 41.3% (95% CI 33.5 to 49.2); certainty not graded.
1 finding from 1 review
Dental caries · School children in Dubai governmental schools
Mean DMFT was 2.66 in low socioeconomic-class schools versus 2.10 in high-class schools.
1 finding from 1 review
Dental information from educational programs · Mothers of preschool children in Sharjah
Educational programs were the reported source of dental information for 13% of mothers.
1 finding from 1 review
Prevalence 13
1 study
GRADE not reported
Tooth wear prevalence · School children aged 2.6-6.8 years in Abu Dhabi
Tooth wear prevalence was 97.6%.
1 finding from 1 review
Intervention not reported
Mean DMFT (decayed, missing, filled permanent teeth) · Individuals with permanent dentition in East Africa
The pooled mean DMFT (permanent dentition) in East Africa was 1.941 (95% CI 1.561 to 2.322); certainty not graded.
1 finding from 1 review
Harms (discomfort) · Children or adolescents (aged 16 years old or under) receiving orthodontic treatment to prevent or correct crowded teeth
1 finding from 1 review
Specificity · Adults (aged 16 years or over) presenting to primary or secondary care with clinically evident suspicious or innocuous oral lesions
1 finding from 1 review
Specificity for detection of oral cavity cancer/OPMD · Apparently healthy adults not reporting symptoms of OPMD or OSCC, attending an organised screening or surveillance programme, or screened…
1 finding from 1 review
Summary of findings 2 (no pooled analysis): specificity 1.00 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.00), 0.95 (95% CI 0.88 to 0.99), 0.44 (95% CI 0.20 to 0.70), and 0.54 (95% CI 0.37 to 0.69) across the 4 studies. Certainty VERY LOW.
4 studies · 35059 participants
Very low
Gingivitis · Children with cerebral palsy in Dubai
Gingivitis prevalence was 58.8% among children with cerebral palsy.
1 finding from 1 review
Prevalence 58.8
1 study
GRADE not reported
Dental caries · Individuals in East Africa assessed for dental caries
Females had significantly higher odds of dental caries than males (OR 1.333, 95% CI 1.129 to 1.575); certainty not graded.
1 finding from 1 review
Heart rate · Adults (any age/sex) with chronic periodontitis (>=5 teeth remaining; PPD >4 mm), with or without hypertension
Periodontal treatment (subgingival SRP with or without other… showed no clear difference in heart rate compared with no treatment (no periodontal treatment); GRADE not reported.
1 finding from 1 review
All-cause mortality (ACM) · Adults (any age) with a known number of remaining teeth, followed prospectively in cohort studies
In prospective cohorts, edentulous adults (0 teeth) had a higher cumulative incidence of all-cause mortality than adults with 20-32 teeth (RR 2.27, 95% CI 1.82 to 2.83; 8 cohort studies, I2=94%); GRADE per-analysis ratings reported in Supplementary File 7 (not available in provided sources).
1 finding from 1 review
Mean number of missing teeth in OC cases vs controls · Adults (general and hospital populations assessed in case-control studies)
No statistically significant difference in number of missing teeth between SSc patients and controls (SMD 0.55, CI includes 0); certainty ungraded.
1 finding from 1 review
Lesion progression · Children and/or adults with permanent or primary teeth, vital (sensitive) pulps, and cavitated or dentine carious lesions conventionally…
1 finding from 1 review
Need for additional augmentation prior to implant placement · Adults aged 18 years or older, in good general health (including well-controlled systemic disease), requiring extraction of one or more…
It is very uncertain whether ARP with xenograft (bone graft) changes need for additional augmentation prior to implant placement compared with extraction alone (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Need for additional augmentation prior to implant placement · Adults aged 18 years or older, in good general health (including well-controlled systemic disease), requiring extraction of one or more…
It is very uncertain whether ARP with allograft changes need for additional augmentation prior to implant placement compared with ARP with xenograft (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review