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Each row is one question a systematic review asked: who, what, compared with what, and which outcome, with the effect it found and how certain that is. Words match anywhere in the field.
7 questions in 3 reviews · cluster CL0217
current versionsNo studies 1 · 14.3%Ungraded 5 · 71.4%Very low 1 · 14.3%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
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| Question | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Oral hygiene interventions (mechanical plaque removal): knowledge-based, behavioural, or skills training for people with ID or their carers vs Usual care, no care, or a similar alternative intervention Dental caries levels of people with ID · People with intellectual disabilities (ID), living at home, in day care, in hospital or in a residential care setting;… Oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities (2019) · Cochrane | No studies measured dental caries levels. One RCT (Shaw 1991, Comparison 5) assessed DMFT at baseline only and did not report caries at any later time point. | 0 studies | No studies |
Any form of one-to-one oral hygiene advice (OHA) vs No OHA Dental caries · Children or adults (fit and healthy, or with a well-defined medical condition) · 4 to 12 months One‐to‐one oral hygiene advice provided in a dental setting for oral health (2018) · Cochrane | SoF: 1 study in adults reported only 'small and statistically insignificant changes' but no usable data; the other study on infants provided evidence of a benefit for OHA at 8 and 12 months but not at 4 months.… | 2 studies · 244 participants | Very low |
Community and caregiver oral health education plus media campaign vs Pre-intervention BBTD rate Baby bottle tooth decay prevalence · Alaska Native and American Indian Head Start children · 3 years, High-intensity training Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) | Percent reduction in BBTD prevalence 33 | 1 study | Ungraded |
Community and caregiver oral health education plus media campaign vs Pre-intervention BBTD rate Baby bottle tooth decay prevalence · Alaska Native and American Indian Head Start children · 3 years, Medium-intensity training Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) | Percent reduction in BBTD prevalence 18 | 1 study | Ungraded |
Community and caregiver oral health education (training community volunteers, health workers and site coordinators; caregiver counselling; oral health media campaign) vs Pre-intervention baseline (and sites that discontinued the prevention program) Reduction in prevalence of baby bottle tooth decay (BBTD) · Alaska Native and American Indian Head Start (preschool) children · 3 to 8 years Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) | Percent reduction in BBTD prevalence 25 | 1 study | Ungraded |
Community and caregiver oral health education plus media campaign vs Pre-intervention BBTD rate Baby bottle tooth decay prevalence · Alaska Native Head Start children · 3 years, Alaska Native site Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) | Percent increase in BBTD prevalence 20 | 1 study | Ungraded |
Community and caregiver oral health education plus media campaign vs Pre-intervention BBTD rate Baby bottle tooth decay prevalence · Alaska Native and American Indian Head Start children · 3 years, Low-intensity training Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) | Percent reduction in BBTD prevalence 27 | 1 study | Ungraded |