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Table 2 Risk of bias summary: review authors’ judgements for each included study according to each risk of bias item

From: Parental acceptance of silver Diamine fluoride application on primary dentition: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Domain

Zhi et al. (2012)

Belotti et al. (2016)

Clements et al. (2017)

Duangthip et al. (2017)

Vollú et al.(2019)

Selection bias

Random sequence generation

+

+

Selection bias

Allocation concealment

+

+

+

Reporting bias

Selective reporting

+

+

+

Other bias

Other sources of bias

+

+

+

Performance bias

Blinding (participants and personnel)

+

?

+

+

Detection bias

Blinding (outcome assessment)

+

?

+

?

+

Attrition bias

Incomplete outcome data

+

?

  1. Quality items distributed to: high risk of bias”+”, low risk of bias “-”, and unclear “?”