Table 8 Assessment of certainty of evidence of the evaluation of the association between malocclusion and dental age considering the sex (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 in males | ||||||
1148* (4 observational studies) | seriousa | seriousb | not serious | not serious | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |
Sagittal discrepancies in females | ||||||
1250* (4 observational studies) | seriousa | seriousb | not serious | not serious | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |
Vertical discrepancies in males | ||||||
240 (4 observational studies) | very seriousc | not serious | not serious | seriousd | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |
Vertical discrepancies in females | ||||||
233 (4 observational studies) | very seriousc | not serious | not serious | seriousd | none | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low |