TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficacy of sonic and ultrasonic activation during endodontic treatment
T2 - a meta-analysis of in vitro studies
AU - Paixão, Sara
AU - Rodrigues, Cláudia
AU - Grenho, Liliana
AU - Fernandes, Maria Helena
N1 - Funding Information:
FCT/MCTES–Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the project UIDB/50006/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Acta Odontologica Scandinavica Society.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Objective: To ensure a successful endodontic treatment, it is important to have a proper disinfection of the root canal. The current study compares the root canal cleanliness and smear layer score between sonic and ultrasonic activation. Method: Systematic literature review was implemented, using 12 databases. All in vitro studies comparing the efficacy of sonic and ultrasonic activation and reporting at least one outcome of interest were included. Results: At the apical level, pooling the data in the random-effects model (I2=64%, p =.1) revealed a statistically significant lower smear layer score within the sonic activation group (MD-0.48; 95% CI-0.92, −0.04; p =.03). Furthermore, there was a statistically significant lower push-out bond strength value among the sonic group, in contrast to the ultrasonic group at the middle (MD-0.69; 95% CI-1.13, −0.25; p =.002) and at the apical levels (MD-0.78; 95% CI-1.09, −0.46; p
AB - Objective: To ensure a successful endodontic treatment, it is important to have a proper disinfection of the root canal. The current study compares the root canal cleanliness and smear layer score between sonic and ultrasonic activation. Method: Systematic literature review was implemented, using 12 databases. All in vitro studies comparing the efficacy of sonic and ultrasonic activation and reporting at least one outcome of interest were included. Results: At the apical level, pooling the data in the random-effects model (I2=64%, p =.1) revealed a statistically significant lower smear layer score within the sonic activation group (MD-0.48; 95% CI-0.92, −0.04; p =.03). Furthermore, there was a statistically significant lower push-out bond strength value among the sonic group, in contrast to the ultrasonic group at the middle (MD-0.69; 95% CI-1.13, −0.25; p =.002) and at the apical levels (MD-0.78; 95% CI-1.09, −0.46; p
KW - Disinfection
KW - Endodontics
KW - Root canal irrigants
KW - Sodium hypochlorite
KW - Ultrasonics
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U2 - 10.1080/00016357.2022.2061591
DO - 10.1080/00016357.2022.2061591
M3 - Article
C2 - 35430959
AN - SCOPUS:85129274768
SN - 0001-6357
VL - 80
SP - 588
EP - 595
JO - Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
JF - Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
IS - 8
ER -