Sensitivity for detection and diagnosis of early (enamel) caries · Asymptomatic children, adolescents, or adults presenting for clinical examination (in vivo studies), or extracted teeth of children or…
1 finding from 1 review
Canine expansion · Children and adults with a posterior crossbite, without a Class III skeletal relationship, cleft lip or palate (or both), or other…
Fixed tooth-borne expansion (quad-helix) may leads to higher canine expansion (inter-canine distance) compared with observation (no treatment) (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Intervention not reported
Water samples with fluoride concentration below the acceptable range
1 finding from 1 review
Canine expansion · Children and adults with a posterior crossbite, without a Class III skeletal relationship, cleft lip or palate (or both), or other…
1 finding from 1 review
Overall survival (total mortality), chemotherapy regimen A vs regimen B · People receiving curative-intent treatment for oral cavity and oropharyngeal (squamous cell) cancer
1 finding from 1 review
Electrical conductance devices (electronic caries monitor (ECM) and/or CarieScan Pro), used as an adjunct to clinical oral examination vs Reference standard: histology or enhanced visual examination (with or without radiographs)
Outcome not reported · Children/adolescents/adults or extracted teeth; target condition = non-cavitated enamel caries on SMOOTH tooth surfaces.
The review found no eligible studies for this question.
1 finding from 1 review
Effect of severity of PDC displacement towards the midline on the proportion of successful eruptions · Young people aged 9 to 14 years diagnosed with one or both palatally displaced permanent maxillary canines (PDC)
1 finding from 1 review
Table 4 (Naoumova 2015): probability of successful eruption depended on displacement severity; sector 2 (mild) 14/19 (74%) erupted vs sector 4 0/10 erupted; data refer to 59 teeth (mITT).
1 study · 59 participants
GRADE not reported
Failure of therapy · Children and/or adults with permanent or primary teeth, vital (sensitive) pulps, and cavitated or dentine carious lesions conventionally…
Non-selective carious tissue removal and conventional restoration (CR) may leads to higher failure of therapy compared with hall Technique (sealing with a preformed metal crown) (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Intervention not reported
Mean DMFT (decayed, missing, filled permanent teeth) · Individuals with permanent dentition in East Africa
Mean DMFT was lowest in Tanzania at 0.945 (95% CI not reported); certainty not graded.
1 finding from 1 review
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 vibrational appliance with fixed appliances changes amount of crowding (change in mandibular crowding) at 10 to 30 weeks compared with fixed appliances only / no vibrational appliance (control) (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Adverse events · Patients aged above 12 years with self-reported tooth hypersensitivity confirmed on clinical evaluation
2 findings from 1 review
Changes in vertical height of alveolar ridge (mm) · 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 changes in vertical height of alveolar ridge (mm) compared with ARP with xenograft (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Adverse events (participants with adverse events or withdrawals due to adverse events) · Adults (any age/sex) with chronic periodontitis (>=5 teeth remaining; PPD >4 mm), with or without hypertension
1 finding from 1 review
Specificity · Children, adolescents, or adults presenting asymptomatically or suspected of early enamel caries (in vivo), or extracted teeth of…
2 findings from 1 review
Plaque · Adolescents/teenagers undergoing orthodontic treatment
A single study reported a lower full-mouth plaque score with aligners versus fixed appliances in adolescents at 12 months (MD -43.48, 95% CI -47.65 to -39.31; ungraded).
3 findings from 1 review
MD -43.48 [-47.65, -39.31]
1 study
GRADE not reported
MD -0.40 [-0.77, -0.03]
1 study
GRADE not reported
MD -14.78 [-16.74, -12.82]
1 study
GRADE not reported
Intervention not reported
Mean dmft
1 finding from 1 review
Mean(SD) 1.55 (2.75)
1 study
GRADE not reported
Intervention not reported
Dental caries prevalence
1 finding from 1 review
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), change from baseline · 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 change in systolic blood pressure (SBP, mmHg) compared with no treatment (no periodontal treatment) (low certainty).
4 findings from 1 review
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Diagnostic accuracy for occlusal caries detection at the dentin caries detection level (D0-2 versus D3-4) · Human permanent posterior teeth (premolars and molars) in patients, occlusal (pit-and-fissure) surfaces
In in vivo, conventional bitewing radiography (D-speed) pooled sensitivity was 0.79 (95% CI 0.41 to 0.96) for occlusal caries at the dentin detection level; ungraded.
4 findings from 1 review
Sensitivity 0.79 [0.41, 0.96]
2 studies
GRADE not reported
Specificity 0.75 [0.68, 0.82]
2 studies
GRADE not reported
AUC 0.77
2 studies
GRADE not reported
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DOR 11.79 [2.43, 57.24]
2 studies
GRADE not reported
Crossbite correction · Children and adults with a posterior crossbite, without a Class III skeletal relationship, cleft lip or palate (or both), or other…
Bone-borne expansion showed no clear difference in crossbite correction compared with fixed tooth-borne expansion (Hyrax) (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review