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Table 5 Risk of Bias of the included studies

From: Clinical efficacy and the antimicrobial potential of silver formulations in arresting dental caries: a systematic review

Study

Selection bias

Baseline characteristics similarity\ appropriate control selection

Selection bias

Allocation concealment

Selection bias

Randomization

Performance bias

Blinding of Researchers

Detection bias

Blinding of outcome assessors

Reporting bias

Selective outcome reporting

Confounding bias

Account for confounding variable

In vivo studies

 Karched et al., 2019

+

?

+

?

?

?

+

 Milgrom et al., 2018

+

?

+

?

?

?

-

 Mitwalli et al., 2019

+

?

+

-

?

?

-

In vitro studies

 Mei et al., 2013

+

?

+

?

+

+

?

 Chu et al., 2012

+

?

+

?

?

+

?

 Mei et al., 2013(a)

+

?

+

?

?

+

?

 Hamama et al., 2015

+

?

+

?

+

+

?

 Besinis et al., 2014

+

?

+

?

?

+

?

  1. Risk of bias legends: + (Low risk); - (High risk); ? (Un-clear risk)