Publications by authors named "Maria Azab"
Objective: To compare the effects of treatments for mild or moderate (that is, non-severe) coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).
Design: Systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Data Sources: Covid-19 Living Overview of Evidence Repository (covid-19 L-OVE) by the Epistemonikos Foundation, a public, living repository of covid-19 articles, from 1 January 2023 to 19 May 2024.
Background: Corticosteroids are used to manage pain after surgical tooth extractions. The authors assessed the effect of corticosteroids on acute postoperative pain in patients undergoing surgical tooth extractions of mandibular third molars.
Types Of Studies Reviewed: The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated the effectiveness of various analgesics for managing acute pain in children after dental procedures, focusing on dental extractions and irreversible pulpitis.
- Researchers analyzed data from multiple medical databases and included 6 randomized controlled trials, performing meta-analyses to compare different pain relief medications against each other and placebos.
- Results indicated ibuprofen and acetaminophen can reduce pain intensity, especially when used together, but there is limited evidence on their effectiveness for irreversible pulpitis and potential side effects were not well-documented.
Background: There is a growing body of evidence of systematic reviews (SRs) with varying degrees of methodological quality. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach allows SR authors to assess the certainty of the evidence they found and transparently relay their conclusions. As there appears to be infrequent utilization of GRADE in the field of dentistry, to identify the impact of GRADE, the aim of this study is to evaluate the use of GRADE in the dental literature and determine whether SRs that use GRADE differ from those that do not with respect to their conclusions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInjectable and topical local anesthetics for acute dental pain: 2 systematic reviews.
J Am Dent Assoc
January 2023
Background: Local anesthesia is essential for pain control in dentistry. The authors assessed the comparative effect of local anesthetics on acute dental pain after tooth extraction and in patients with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis.
Types Of Studies Reviewed: The authors searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and the US Clinical Trials registry through November 21, 2020.
Background: The aim of this systematic review was to determine whether secondary closure (SC) or primary closure (PC) is better at preventing postoperative complications after impacted mandibular third-molar extraction.
Types Of Studies Reviewed: The authors sought randomized controlled trials comparing the effects of PC and SC on pain, swelling, trismus, infection, and bleeding after impacted mandibular third-molar extraction. Screening, data extraction, and risk of bias assessments were conducted independently and in duplicate.
Background: An essential component of systematic reviews is the assessment of risk of bias. To date, there has been no investigation of how reviews of non-randomised studies of nutritional exposures (called 'nutritional epidemiologic studies') assess risk of bias.
Objective: To describe methods for the assessment of risk of bias in reviews of nutritional epidemiologic studies.
Updates: This is the second version (first update) of the living systematic review, replacing the previous version (available as a data supplement). When citing this paper please consider adding the version number and date of access for clarity.
Objective: To determine and compare the effects of drug prophylaxis on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).
Objective: To compare the effects of treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).
Design: Living systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Data Sources: WHO covid-19 database, a comprehensive multilingual source of global covid-19 literature, up to 3 December 2021 and six additional Chinese databases up to 20 February 2021.