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Table 3 Quality assessment

Author, year of publication	Method of randomisation [+/(+)/-]	Concealment [+/(+)/-]	Blinding of the examiner [+/(+)/-]
Aimetti[36]	+	+	+
Aimetti[36]	Computer generated list	+	+
Cionca[43]	+	+	+
Cionca[43]	Computer generated list	+	+
Ferres 2012[41]	+	+	+
Ferres 2012[41]	Computer generated list	+	+
Heller[45]	+	+	+
Heller[45]	Computer generated list	+	+
Matarazzo[40]	+	+	+
Matarazzo[40]	Computer generated list	+	+
Mestnik[37]	+	+	+
Mestnik[37]	Computer generated table	+	+
Mombelli[24]	+	+	+
Mombelli[24]	Computer generated list	+	+
Preus[99]	+	+	+
Preus[99]	Computer generated table	+	+
Sigusch 2001[57]	(+)	-	(+)
Winkel[48]	(+)	-	+
Winkel[49]	(+)	-	+
Xajigeorgiou[50]	+	-	+
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