Dental sealants for preventing decay in permanent teeth

Dental sealants for preventing decay in permanent teeth

Cochrane Review 12 SoF Entries

Summary of Findings

Key results and quality assessments using GRADE methodology

Outcome Effect Participants Studies Certainty
Healing - 1 year
Root canal retreatment
1.15 - - Not assessed
Pain assessed with visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 to 100 - 1 day
Root canal retreatment
nan - - Not assessed
Prevalence of pain - 1 day
Root canal retreatment
3.34 - - Not assessed
Occurrence of postoperative infection - 4 weeks
Root canal retreatment
nan - - Not assessed
Height loss of interdental papilla
Root canal retreatment
nan - - Not assessed
Maximum pain assessed with verbal rating scale (VRS)
Root canal retreatment
nan - - Not assessed
Healing at 1 year
Loupes
1.05 - - Not assessed
Healing at 2 years
Microscope
1.01 - - Not assessed
Pain assessed with visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 to 100 at 1 day
loupes or microscope
nan - - Not assessed
Prevalence of pain at 1 day
loupes or microscope
nan - - Not assessed
Occurrence of postoperative infection at 4 weeks
loupes or microscope
nan - - Not assessed
Height loss of interdental papilla - 1 year
Complete mobilisation
-1.04 - - Not assessed
GRADE Certainty of Evidence:
High Very confident in the effect estimate
Moderate Moderately confident in the effect estimate
Low Limited confidence in the effect estimate
Very Low Very little confidence in the effect estimate

Review Information

Review ID: CD005511
Outcomes: 12 assessed

Related Content

Evidence Quality Distribution:
Not assessed: 12