Parameter | Inclusion criteria |
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Population | Patients of any age, gender and ethnicity with the teeth associated with dentigerous cysts |
Intervention | Spontaneous tooth eruption after surgical DC treatment |
Comparison | Lack of a spontaneous tooth eruption after surgical DC treatment |
Outcome | Time to eruption; factors potentially influencing spontaneous tooth eruption, e.g. root formation stage, tooth angulation, distance between the top of a tooth cusp and the edge of the alveolar process, cyst area, eruption space, age, gender |
Study design | Randomized clinical trials (RCT), prospective controlled clinical trials (CCT), case series, observational studies, review articles, and retrospective studies; published in English |