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Does dental trauma have impact on the oral health-related quality of life of children and adolescents?

Evidence-Based Dentistry volume 24, page 41 (2023)Cite this article

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Abstract

Research question

Does dental trauma have impact on the oral health-related quality of life of children and adolescents?

Research protocol

Protocol was designed as per the best practices of evidence-based medicine, guidelines for umbrella reviews and registered in PROSPERO.

Literature search

PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Sciences and Lilacs were searched for studies meeting the inclusion criteria from start of databases to 15th July 2021. Grey literature and registries of systematic review protocols were also searched. Hand searching of the references of included articles was also performed. The literature search was updated on 15th October 2021. Scrutiny of the titles and abstracts and later full text was done as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Data extraction

Self-designed pre-piloted form was used by two reviewers.

Quality appraisal

AMSTAR-2 was used to assess the quality of systematic reviews, PRISMA was used to check reporting-characteristics and citation-matrix was used to evaluate study-overlap. Quality of evidence was assessed by using Kohler’s-criteria.

Data analysis

Qualitative synthesis was performed for describing the study characteristics, details of sampling and the tool of OHRQoL used. The meta-analytic data was used for evaluating the evidence and its strength for each of the outcomes.

Results and interpretation

A significant impact of all types of TDI on OHRQoL in children and adolescents was observed. The effect of uncomplicated TDI on OHRQoL in children and all ages showed no difference from controls. Though the quality of evidence in these interpretations was weak.

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  1. Division of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Centre for Dental Education and Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Nitesh Tewari, Vijay P. Mathur, Shubhi Goel, Morankar Rahul & Farheen Sultan

  2. Department of Orthodontics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Sukeshana Srivastav

  3. Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Partha Haldar

  4. University of Texas Houston School of Dentistry, Houston, TX, USA

    Priyanshi Ritwik

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NT conceptualized the study, designed the protocol, performed the electronic searchers, analysed the data, supervised the stages of risk of bias analysis and grading of the evidence, prepared the initial draft of manuscript and revised it. VM designed the protocol supervised the data extraction and revised the manuscript, SG designed the protocol, performed the literature search, data extraction, risk of bias analysis, data extraction and revised the manuscript, MR designed the protocol performed the data analysis and revised the manuscript, SS designed the protocol, performed the data extraction and risk of bias assessment and grading of the evidence, FS designed the protocol, performed data extraction and revised the manuscript. FS developed the protocol, analysed the data and edited the manuscript, PH developed the protocol, supervised the data analysis, quality assessment and grading of the evidence, PR developed the protocol, supervised the quality assessment and edited the manuscript.

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Tewari, N., Mathur, V.P., Goel, S. et al. Does dental trauma have impact on the oral health-related quality of life of children and adolescents?. Evid Based Dent 24, 41 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41432-023-00849-9

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