This critical appraisal of a update of a systematic review was prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Associations Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry. The aim of the review (Mickenautsch & Yengopal 2011) was to assess the caries-preventive effect of glass ionomer and resin-based fissure sealants on permanent teeth. This 2011 review was itself an [read the full story…]
Frequent readers won’t be surprised to read that us elves are always keen to support improvements in the quality of research. One of the clarion calls of many systematic reviews is for better quality studies to increase the numbers of trials that meet inclusion criteria. It was with great interest therefore that we read of [read the full story…]
This is a critical appraisal of a Cochrane review first published in December 2010. The appraisal was prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Associations Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry The objective of the Cochrane review was to determine if adjusting the pH of lidocaine had any effect on pain resulting from non-intravascular injections in [read the full story…]
This 2010 review by Cehreli et al of marginal bone loss around implants has now been critically reviewed by the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry. The review found that Marginal bone loss around implants supporting or retaining mandibular overdentures is not significantly affected by the implant system or attachment design However the reviewer [read the full story…]
The American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry has just completed a critical review of a paper by Migliorati et al published in 2012 which aimed to examine the prevalence of bisphosphonate osteonecrosis (BON) in the cancer population, prevention and treatment protocols, and quality of life issues. This is a growing area of interest but, [read the full story…]
This study by Kim et al from March 2011 has had a summary prepared by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York. The CRD summary of the paper states:- This study examined the cost-effectiveness of strategies for the management of a tooth after failed root canal treatment, including non-surgical or [read the full story…]
This review originally published in 2009 has now had a critical summary of it prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry The appraiser considered that this was a good systematic review that had used accepted methods and applied rigourous selection criteria. There was homogeneity among the 5 studies included [read the full story…]
Another critical summary of a systematic review prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry. Originally published in 2010 , the review aimed to assess the frequency of non-odontogenic dentoalveolar pain six months or more after endodontic therapy. The summariser notes the that both English and non-English language articles were [read the full story…]
This recently published critical summary of a systematic review was prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry. The review summarised aimed to assess the effectiveness of the NTI-tss (Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition tension suppression system) device for the treatment of bruxism, headache and temporomandibular disorders was originally published in 2008. [read the full story…]
This critical summary of a systematic review published in 2010 was prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry . The aim of this review was to assess how film-based radiography compared with digital radiography. The commentator highlights the fact that the review only searched one database ( PubMed) and [read the full story…]
