Dental development and maturation · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)
A single small study suggested delayed dental development in CLWH on ART, but the evidence was insufficient to draw conclusions (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Dental caries (association with secondary/higher maternal education) · Children (deciduous and/or permanent dentition) in low- and middle-income countries
Secondary/higher maternal education showed no significant association with dental caries (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.64 to 1.44; 7 studies; not GRADE-rated).
1 finding from 1 review
Caries experience (mean DMFT) · Children aged 12 years (plus or minus one year) in Africa
The pooled mean DMFT score was 1.0900 (95% CI 0.9143 to 1.2657); GRADE was not reported.
2 findings from 1 review
Mean DMFT 1.0900 [0.9143, 1.2657]
Studies not reported
GRADE not reported
Mean DMFT 1.1444 [0.9780, 1.3108]
Studies not reported
GRADE not reported
Contribution to total daily fluoride intake · children
For children in low-fluoridated areas, the mean contribution was 39% (SD 24%).
1 finding from 1 review
Infant weight-length gain (achievement of adequate weight) · Healthy, term-born, normal-birth-weight infants aged 4-24 months (breastfed and/or formula-fed) in Western industrialized countries
Baby-led weaning/BLISS did not significantly influence infant weight-length (adequate weight) gain versus other complementary feeding models (pooled OR 1.36, 95% CI 0.18 to 10.51; ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
Oral hygiene · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)
Oral hygiene status did not differ significantly between CLWH with and without ART (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
OR 0.73 [0.13, 4.26]
0 studies
GRADE not reported
Intervention not reported
Oral Candida carriage and salivary yeast concentration
1 finding from 1 review
no estimate extracted
1 study
GRADE not reported
Early childhood caries (ECC) - association at lead SNP rs76823412 (8:134690570; nearest gene(s) ST3GAL1) · Children up to age 5-6 years (European / European non-Hispanic ancestry); 843 ECC-affected vs 2124 unaffected across 5 cohorts (N=2974)
The common variant rs8091366 near CHST9, KCTD1 showed suggestive (not genome-wide significant) association with ECC (Z = 4.476, p = 7.60e-6); genetic association, ungraded.
2 findings from 1 review
Oral health-related quality of life · Children with dental caries
SDF did not significantly differ from placebo for oral health-related quality of life in children (MD 0.03, 95% CI -0.16 to 0.22; ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
Dental caries · Children and adolescents (general population, aged under 20 years)
Evidence on food marketing and dental caries is very uncertain (very low certainty); 1 of 2 studies found an association.
1 finding from 1 review
Dental attendance · School children, primary and secondary schools in India
It is very uncertain whether traditional screening with motivation (oral health education and… changes dental attendance compared with traditional screening alone (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Presence of dry socket · Adults (>18 years) having permanent tooth extraction (predominantly mandibular third molars)
Chlorhexidine rinse (0.12% and 0.2%, pre- and post-extraction) probably leads to lower presence of dry socket compared with placebo or no treatment (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Restoration failure · Children with carious primary teeth
No comparative effect estimate was reported; failure rates were tabulated.
1 finding from 1 review
Restoration failure · Children with carious primary teeth
No comparative effect estimate was reported; cumulative failure rates were tabulated.
1 finding from 1 review
Caries experience at the surface level (dmfs/defs) · Children (mean age newborn to ~5.2 years) and their parents/carers
Oral-health-education-only interventions did not show a statistically significant effect on surface-level caries (dmfs SMD -0.20, 95% CI -0.43 to 0.03; 2 studies; not GRADE-rated).
1 finding from 1 review
Angular cheilitis prevalence · Children and adolescents (<18 years) living with HIV (CLWH)
No eligible studies compared angular cheilitis between different ART regimens.
1 finding from 1 review
Restoration failure · Children (3-13 years) with dentine caries in primary teeth, no pulpal involvement
ART with GIC was reported to increase the odds of restoration failure versus conventional restoration (OR 1.60; ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
detection of proximal caries · Dental images of human beings
The review reported 85.6% accuracy for proximal caries in Casalegno et al. (Ungraded).
2 findings from 1 review
Caries development in permanent teeth · School children and adolescents (6-18 years) followed from primary dentition (baseline examination before 72 months of age)
Caries in the first and second primary molars is the strongest tooth-specific predictor of caries in permanent teeth (RR 3.4; single study; not GRADE-rated).
1 finding from 1 review
Caries experience · European adolescents aged 17 years
Pooled caries experience was 4.50.
1 finding from 1 review