About this Research Topic
Evidence-based dentistry is essential to improve clinical care decision-making. Evidence -based dentistry also enables dentists, patients, policymakers, and stakeholders receive valuable information that can help with the formulation or revision of policies and the design of programs that optimises the prevention and treatment of oral diseases at both the community and facility levels. Such evidence is generated from clinical trials, systematic reviews, epidemiological, implementation science and operation science research.
In addition, evidence is needed to help update tools used to generate research-based evidence. The field needs to learn how to do better at assessing the risk of bias and methodological quality of studies, new statistical approaches for meta-analysis, and explore the use of artificial intelligence to help search and screen studies. These will help strengthen the certainty of the evidence generated.
Of particular importance are systematic reviews that generate valuable - evidence to answer research questions relevant for improved health programming. Systematic reviews identify, evaluate and summarise the findings of relevant studies that address a specific health issue thereby making evidence available for decision making. The practice of dentistry can be strengthened by the generation of evidence to help improve policies and practices that reduces the risk for oral diseases, integration of oral health into general health, implement cost-effective health programs that are context specific and much more.
The Editors of this Research Topic welcome submissions on the following content:
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis in any area of oral health and dentistry
• Systematic reviews of effectiveness of treatments and prevention of oral diseases
• Systematic reviews of cost and economic evaluation, prevalence or incidence, diagnostic test accuracy, etiology and risk factors
• Protocols of systematic reviews
• Methodological systematic reviews and umbrella reviews Scoping reviews
In addition, evidence is needed to help update tools used to generate research-based evidence. The field needs to learn how to do better at assessing the risk of bias and methodological quality of studies, new statistical approaches for meta-analysis, and explore the use of artificial intelligence to help search and screen studies. These will help strengthen the certainty of the evidence generated.
Of particular importance are systematic reviews that generate valuable - evidence to answer research questions relevant for improved health programming. Systematic reviews identify, evaluate and summarise the findings of relevant studies that address a specific health issue thereby making evidence available for decision making. The practice of dentistry can be strengthened by the generation of evidence to help improve policies and practices that reduces the risk for oral diseases, integration of oral health into general health, implement cost-effective health programs that are context specific and much more.
The Editors of this Research Topic welcome submissions on the following content:
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis in any area of oral health and dentistry
• Systematic reviews of effectiveness of treatments and prevention of oral diseases
• Systematic reviews of cost and economic evaluation, prevalence or incidence, diagnostic test accuracy, etiology and risk factors
• Protocols of systematic reviews
• Methodological systematic reviews and umbrella reviews Scoping reviews
Keywords: evidence-based dentistry, evidence-based practice, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, scoping reviews, network meta-analysis, methodological surveys
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