Table 7 Assessment of certainty of evidence of the evaluation of the association between malocclusion and dental age (GRADE)
From: Association between dental age and malocclusions: a systematic review
Certainty assessment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Participants (studies) Follow-up | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | Overall certainty of evidence |
Sagittal discrepancies | ||||||
647 (4 observational studies) | seriousa | seriousb | not serious | not serious | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |
Vertical discrepancies | ||||||
784 (6 observational studies) | seriousa | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |
Transversal discrepancy | ||||||
101 (1 observational study) | seriousc | not serious | not serious | seriousd | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |