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Sedation versus general anaesthesia for provision of dental treatment to patients younger than 18 years

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
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Title
Sedation versus general anaesthesia for provision of dental treatment to patients younger than 18 years
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd006334.pub4
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Paul F Ashley, Catherine ECS Williams, David R Moles, Jennifer Parry

Abstract

A significant proportion of children have caries requiring restorations or extractions, and some of these children will not accept this treatment under local anaesthetic. Historically this has been managed by the use of a general anaesthetic in children; however, use of sedation may lead to reduced morbidity and cost. The aim of this review was to compare the efficiency of sedation versus general anaesthesia (GA) for provision of dental treatment to children and adolescents younger than 18 years. This review was originally published in 2009 and was updated in 2012 and again in 2015. We will evaluate morbidity and effectiveness of sedation versus GA for provision of dental treatment to patients younger than 18 years. If data become available, we will analyse the cost-effectiveness of different interventions. If data are not available, we will obtain crude estimates of cost.Morbidity can be defined as 'an undesired result or complication'. For the purposes of this review, 'postoperative morbidity' refers to undesired results or complications such as nausea following a procedure, once the patient had been restored to consciousness and could breathe unaided. 'Intraoperative morbidity' refers to any complications that occur during the procedure that may necessitate action by the anaesthetist or the sedationist, such as respiratory arrest. In this updated review, we searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2015, Issue 7); MEDLINE Ovid SP (1950 to July 2015); EMBASE Ovid SP (1974 to July 2015); System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe (SIGLE) (1980 to October July 2012); Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS) (1982 to July 2015); and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science (1945 to July 2015).We also carried out handsearching of relevant journals to July 2015. We imposed no language restriction. We planned to include randomized controlled clinical trials that compared sedative agents versus general anaesthesia in children and adolescents up to 18 years of age undergoing dental treatment. We excluded complex surgical procedures and pseudo-randomized trials. Two review authors assessed titles and abstracts for inclusion in the review. We recorded information relevant to objectives and outcome measures by using a specially designed 'data extraction form'. We will employ the Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group (GRADE) approach to interpret findings. In our original review, we identified 16 studies for potential inclusion after searching available databases and screening titles and abstracts. After retrieving full-text studies, we found none to be eligible. We identified no additional studies in the updated search of July 2012. We identified two studies for possible inclusion in the updated search of July 2015; again we found these to be ineligible. Randomized controlled studies comparing use of dental general anaesthesia versus sedation are needed to quantify differences such as morbidity and cost.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 143 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 14 10%
Other 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 29 20%
Unknown 48 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 59 41%
Psychology 8 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 4%
Computer Science 4 3%
Engineering 4 3%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 53 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2017.
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#2,726,905
of 25,543,275 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#5,405
of 13,150 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,890
of 286,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#149
of 289 outputs
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