Dental trauma-related injuries significantly impact oral health-related quality of life of children

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

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

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

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.

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.

Reference:

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

Keywords:

Dental trauma, related, injuries, significantly, impact, oral, health-related, quality of life, children, Evidence-Based Dentistry, Tewari, N., Mathur, V.P., Goel, S.