BioMed Research International

Review Article

Minimally Invasive Techniques to Accelerate the Orthodontic Tooth Movement: A Systematic Review of Animal Studies

Table 5

Assessment of the included studies based on quality assessment tool.
Author Year Topic1234567891011121314151617181920Score
Altan et al. [40] 2012LLLT✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
✗		✓✓✓
✗		✓✓✗✗✓
✗		✓
✗		✓16
Shirazi et al. [39]2013LLLT✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
✗		✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✗17
Xue et al. [45]2013LIPUS✓✓✓✓✓✓✓ ✓✓
✗		✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✓
✗		✓
✗		✗✓17
Al-Daghreer et al. [46]2014LIPUS✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✗✗✓
✗		✓✓✓✗✓✓
✗		✗✓✓✓15
AlSayagh and Salman [50]2014Mechanical vibration✓✗✓✗✗✓✓✗✓✓
✗		✗✗✓✓✓✗✗✓✓✗10
Kim et al. [42]2009LLLT and corticision✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✓✓✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✓18
Seifi et al. [58]2012Laser assisted flapless corticotomy✓✓✓✓✗✓
✗		✓✗✗✓
✗		✗✓✗✗✓✗✓✓✓✗11
Kim et al. [61]2013Piezopuncture✓✓✓✓✗✓✓
✗		✓✓✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✓
✗		✗✓
✗		✓✓16
Safavi et al. [59]2012Flapless bur decortication✓✓
✗		✓✓✗✓✓✓✗✓
✗		✗✗✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓15
Dibart et al. [55]2013Piezocision ✓✓✓✗✓✓✓✓✗✓
✗		✗✓✗✓✓✓
✗		✓✓✓✓15
Ruso et al. [56] 2013Flapless decortication✓✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✓✗✓
✗		✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓18