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Table 4 Certainty of available evidence for the amount and rate of maxillary molar intrusion

From: Assessment of the efficacy of various maxillary molar intrusion therapies: a systematic review

Quality assessment

Overall quality of evidence

No of studies and participants

Design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other

Outcomes: amount and rate of maxillary molar intrusion

7 trials

n = 242 participants

Randomized controlled trials

Very seriousa

Very seriousb

Not serious

Seriousc

None

Very low

  1. aBased on the risk of bias assessment
  2. bDue to heterogeneity in interventions assessed
  3. cRelatively small sample size in 5 trials