TY - JOUR
T1 - Vital and nonvital pulp therapy in primary dentition
T2 - An umbrella review
AU - Lopes, Luísa Bandeira
AU - Calvão, Catarina
AU - Vieira, Filipa Salema
AU - Neves, João Albernaz
AU - Mendes, José João
AU - Machado, Vanessa
AU - Botelho, João
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work is financed by national funds through the FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under project UIDB/04585/2020.
Funding Information:
This work is financed by national funds through the FCT?Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under project UIDB/04585/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/license s/by/4.0/).
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Dental caries is the most common non‐communicable disease in children with significant aesthetic, functional, and quality of life deterioration. Depending on the depth, two approaches may be considered in primary dentition: vital pulp therapy (VPT) or non‐vital therapy (NPT). This umbrella review aimed to critically assess the available systematic reviews (SRs) on VPT and NPT. An electronic database search was conducted (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane, Web of Science, and LILACS) until June 2021. The Risk of Bias (RoB) of SRs was analyzed using the Measurement Tool to Assess SRs criteria 2 (AMSTAR2). From 272 entries, 33 SRs were included. Regarding the methodological quality, three studies were critically low, nine low, seventeen moderate, and six were rated as high quality. The quality of evidence produced by the available SRs was moderate. Future high standard SRs and well‐designed clinical trials are warranted to better elucidate the clinical protocols and outcomes of VPT and NPT.
AB - Dental caries is the most common non‐communicable disease in children with significant aesthetic, functional, and quality of life deterioration. Depending on the depth, two approaches may be considered in primary dentition: vital pulp therapy (VPT) or non‐vital therapy (NPT). This umbrella review aimed to critically assess the available systematic reviews (SRs) on VPT and NPT. An electronic database search was conducted (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane, Web of Science, and LILACS) until June 2021. The Risk of Bias (RoB) of SRs was analyzed using the Measurement Tool to Assess SRs criteria 2 (AMSTAR2). From 272 entries, 33 SRs were included. Regarding the methodological quality, three studies were critically low, nine low, seventeen moderate, and six were rated as high quality. The quality of evidence produced by the available SRs was moderate. Future high standard SRs and well‐designed clinical trials are warranted to better elucidate the clinical protocols and outcomes of VPT and NPT.
KW - Dental medicine
KW - Endodontics
KW - Oral health
KW - Pediatric dentistry
KW - Systematic review
KW - Umbrella review
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U2 - 10.3390/jcm11010085
DO - 10.3390/jcm11010085
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85121612868
SN - 2077-0383
VL - 11
JO - Journal of Clinical Medicine
JF - Journal of Clinical Medicine
IS - 1
M1 - 85
ER -
