The effectiveness of low-level laser therapy as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment: a meta-analysis
Ren C, McGrath C, Jin L, Zhang C, Yang Y
Journal of periodontal research · 60 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Metaanálisis (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Gobierno
- Health and Medical Research Fund
- Subvenciones
- Health and Medical Research Fund (01121056)
Según 1 financiador declarado y la declaración de financiación del texto completo.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2016-03-02 · J Periodontal Res · vol. 52 · número 1 · págs. 8–20
- Editorial
- Wiley
- Citado
- 99 citas · más que el 91% de estudios similares · 3.4× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 50 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista híbrida) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine · Oral microbiology and periodontitis research · Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments
- Palabras clave
- Medicine, Meta-analysis, Randomized controlled trial, Scaling and root planing, Cochrane Library, Blinding, Dentistry, Low level laser therapy, Dental alveolus, Adjunct, MEDLINE, Relative risk, Laser therapy, Periodontitis, Chronic periodontitis, Surgery, Internal medicine, Confidence interval
- MeSH
- humans, periodontitis, combined modality therapy, dental scaling, root planing, low-level light therapy
5 autores
- Chong Ren🇭🇰Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
- Colman P. J. McGrath🇭🇰Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
- Lijian Jin🇭🇰Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
- C Zhang🇭🇰Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
- Yanqi Yang🇭🇰🇺🇸 · autor de correspondenciaChinese University of Hong Kong; In-Q-Tel; University of Hong Kong
Resumen
El texto original del estudio, en el idioma en que se publicó.
Background and objectives
Although low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has been demonstrated to have a biomodulatory effect on periodontal tissue, no systematic review has exclusively addressed its effectiveness as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment. This study aimed to evaluate whether an additional benefit exists for the application of LLLT compared with scaling and root planing (SRP) alone.
Material and methods
An extensive search was conducted in the Cochrane Library (Issue 8, 2015), PubMed (1997) and EMBASE (1947) before August 2015 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The bias risk was assessed with the Cochrane tool for risk of bias evaluation. A meta-analysis was performed using REVMAN 5.3.
Results
After independent screening of 354 initial records, eight publications (seven RCTs) were included. However, six were rated as 'having a high risk of bias' as a result of major methodological weakness in 'allocation concealment' and 'blinding of key personnel'. Meta-analysis showed that LLLT-mediated SRP demonstrated significant short-term benefits over SRP monotherapy in the improvement of the probing pocket depth (p = 0.0009 at 1 mo; p = 0.03 at 2 mo) and the level of interleukin-1β in the gingival crevicular fluid (p = 0.01 at 1 mo). Nevertheless, LLLT failed to show significant additional intermediate-term (3 and 6 mo) effects in terms of clinical parameters and alveolar bone density.
Conclusion
These findings indicated that LLLT showed only short-term additional benefits after conventional SRP. Its long-term effects remain unclear due to substantial methodological weaknesses and an insufficient number of current studies. Future RCTs with better designs and longer follow-up periods are required to assess the effectiveness of LLLT as an adjunctive treatment strategy in patients with periodontal disease.
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