Quality assessment of systematic reviews regarding immediate placement of dental implants into infected sites: An overview

Ref ID 312
First Author O. B. de Oliveira-Neto
Journal JOURNAL OF PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY
Year Of Publishing 2017
URL https://www.thejpd.org/article/S0022-3913(16)30455-3/fulltext
Keywords • Dentistry
• Searching
• Low reporting quality
• Protocols
• Low methodological quality
• Risk of bias
Problem(s) • No registered or published protocol
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
• Insufficient literature searches
• Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
• Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Brazil
Checklists • AMSTAR 1
Aim To assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR) of systematic reviews that evaluated the immediate placement of dental implants into infected sites published in multiple databases up to 2015.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings Of the 5 included systematic reviews that evaluated the immediate placement of dental implants into infected sites published in multiple databases up to 2015, 3 were low methodological (AMSTAR) quality and 2 were assessed as moderate. The most common deficiencies were a priori protocol; comprehensive literature search; list of excluded studies; quality assessment; and quality assessment incorporated into conclusions.
Number of systematic reviews included 5
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 141
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description