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Oral candidiasis prevalence · Children and adolescents living with HIV

Difference in summary specificity (NMA, Analysis 2) · Electrical conductance vs Fluorescence

Contribution to total daily fluoride intake · Adults · Low fluoride in water (0.3-0.51 mg/L)

Acceptability and feasibility of the intervention to patients and dental healthcare providers · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs)

Recurrent oral ulceration prevalence · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)

Reduction in level of contamination by particles >5 um (droplets) at <2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · operator level

Caries prevalence · European adolescents aged 12–19 years · Publication year: < 2010

Malocclusion or orthodontic treatment needs measured by any validated index · School children (aged 4 to 15 years), primary and secondary schools in the UK and India

Hypertension (later in life) · Healthy, term-born, normal-birth-weight infants aged 4-24 months (breastfed and/or formula-fed) in Western… · Later in life

Accuracy advantage in test case 2 · Dental images of human beings · Patil et al., 2019

Dental caries measured by DMFT scores · Primary school children (aged 3-16 years) attending primary school in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) · Post-intervention; follow-up varied across studies (interventions ranged from <2 years to >=2 years and longer)

Presence of dry socket · Adults (>18 years) having permanent tooth extraction (predominantly mandibular third molars) · Follow-up: median 7 days

Caries prevalence (total population) · Children (deciduous and/or permanent dentition) in low- and middle-income countries

No formal maternal education prevalence (among children with caries) · Children with dental caries (deciduous and/or permanent dentition) in low- and middle-income countries · No formal education

Secondary caries (caries around restorations), load-bearing cavities · Patients with permanent dentition in need of restorations in load-bearing cavities (Class I/II posterior) · Last reported follow-up (2-3 years)

Mineral loss (transversal microradiography) · Enamel/dentin specimens with initial caries lesions (or sound surfaces) in intraoral (in situ) appliances worn by… · Median 21 days (range 14-28 days), Net-demineralizing conditions

Reduction in level of contamination by particles >5 um (droplets) at <2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · assistant level

Caries prevalence · 12-year-old children (permanent dentition) in Africa · Country: Sudan

Linear gingival erythema prevalence · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)

Restoration failure · Children with carious primary teeth · 4 years, Class I and II

Change in bleeding on probing (BOP) · Adults with a clinical diagnosis of (chronic) periodontitis (1999 classification); studies of aggressive… · 6 to 8 months (SoF); similar at 3 to 4 months

Persistent parotid enlargement (WHO clinical stage 2) · Children and adolescents (<18 years) · Cross-sectional (case-control; single time point)

Oral hairy leukoplakia prevalence · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)

Caries experience (mean DMFS) · European adolescents aged 12–19 years · Region: Scandinavian

Sensitivity for detecting enamel caries · Asymptomatic children or adults suspected of enamel caries (clinical studies); extracted teeth (in vitro studies) · Analysis 1: fully within-person comparison (studies evaluating >=3 index tests)

Early childhood caries (ECC) - association at lead SNP rs7325099 (13:28104496; nearest gene(s) LNX2, POLR1D, RPL21) · Children up to age 5-6 years (European / European non-Hispanic ancestry); 843 ECC-affected vs 2124 unaffected across 5… · Cross-sectional (ECC ascertained at the last dental exam before age 6), rs7325099 (13:28104496); effect/non-effect allele A/C; MAF 0.50; direction across 5 cohorts ++?++

Dental caries prevalence (DMFT/dmft/DMFS/dmfs > 0) · Children and adolescents (<18 years) · Cross-sectional (case-control; single time point)

Enamel caries proportion of total caries experience · European adolescents aged 12–19 years · Age group: 16–19 years

Time to complete resolution of pain (days) · Adults (>18 years) with established dry socket following permanent tooth extraction · Complete resolution of pain

Reduction in level of contamination by particles <=5 um (droplet nuclei) at >=2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · droplet nuclei; anaerobic cultures

Caries arrest · Children (age 1-10 years) with active cavitated dentin caries lesions in primary molars · Pooled across follow-up evaluations (1-36 months)

Reduction in level of contamination by particles >5 um (droplets) at <2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · tempered CHX vs tempered CPC; operator level

Overweight/obesity risk · Healthy, term-born, normal-birth-weight infants aged 4-24 months (breastfed and/or formula-fed) in Western… · Follow-up to 24 months, BLISS; randomized controlled trials

Treatment failure (annual failure rate) · Children with carious primary molars treated by pulpotomy (vital pulp therapy) · 2 years, RMGIC + composite resin (modified open-sandwich) arm

Contribution to total daily fluoride intake · Children · Medium fluoride in water (0.52-0.77 mg/L)

Pain disability at treatment completion · People aged 12 years and over with painful TMD lasting 3 months or longer · Treatment completion

Mean DMFT score · Children aged 12 years (plus or minus one year) in Africa · Overall, urban/rural-status analysis

Chronic herpes simplex infection prevalence · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)

Proportion of children with other untreated oral health needs · School children (aged 4 to 15 years), primary and secondary schools in the UK and India

Crown retention · Children with primary (deciduous) teeth requiring full-coverage crown restoration · 6 months

Reduction in level of contamination by particles >5 um (droplets) at <2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · assistant level

Reduction in level of contamination by particles >5 um (droplets) at <2 m from patient's oral cavity · Dental patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the dental healthcare providers treating them · operator level

Caries experience - mean dfs (descriptive), primary dentition · CL/P vs no CL/P; Table 4 (1 group/1 study, Dahllof 1989)

Primary maternal education prevalence (among children with caries) · Children with dental caries (deciduous and/or permanent dentition) in low- and middle-income countries · Primary education

Development of endocarditis due to other (non-dental) causes · Adults or children at increased risk of bacterial endocarditis (pre-existing cardiac condition) undergoing an invasive…

Pain intensity · People aged 12 years and over with painful TMD lasting 3 months or longer

MRONJ (incidence proportion) · Men with metastatic prostate cancer receiving intravenous zoledronic acid (at risk of MRONJ) · mean 32 months

Caries prevalence · European adolescents aged 12–19 years · Publication year: ≥ 2010

Dental caries measured by net increment in DMFT scores · Primary school children (aged 3-16 years) attending primary school in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) · Post-intervention; follow-up varied across studies (interventions ranged from <2 years to >=2 years and longer), Age 5-8 years

Difference in summary specificity (NMA, Analysis 2) · Imaging vs Transillumination