This systematic review was first published in 2010 The American Dental Association Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry has now published a critical summary of this review. They found the review to be comprehensive using STROBE criteria to assess study quality.Eighteen of the 26 studies were prospective. However they noted that the reviewers did not report the [read the full story…]
This systematic review was first published in 2008. The American Dental Association Center for Evidence-based Dentistry has now published a critical summary of the review. They highlighted as number of methodological issues with the review and all of the included studies were retrospective studies. They found that the review was :- unable to demonstrate a [read the full story…]
This systematic review was first published in 2009. The American Dental Association Center for Evidence-based Dentistry has now published a critical summary of the review. They identified some issues with the clarity of the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the thoroughness of the search strategy, and the reporting quality. However there was consistency among the [read the full story…]
This systematic review was originally published in the Journal of Dentistry in 2010. The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination have now appraised the quality of the review and written a structured abstract of it. They conclude that the review conducted a comprehensive search strategy, with a risk of some publication bias due to their inclusion [read the full story…]
