Review Article
Effectiveness of Laser Therapy in the Management of Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis: A Systematic Review
Table 2
Quality of the included trials.
| | Criterion | Study | | Zand et al., 2009 [36] | Zand et al., 2012 [37] | Prasad and Pai, 2013 [38] | Sattayut et al., 2013 [40] | Aggarwal et al., 2014 [34] | Albrektson et al., 2014 [35] | Tezel et al., 2009 [41] | De Souza et al., 2010 [39] | Lalabonova and Daskalov, 2014 [42] | Jijin et al., 2016 [43] |
| | Randomization | B | B | B | B | B | A | B | B | B | B | | Allocation concealment | B | B | B | A | B | B | B | B | B | B | | Blinding | B | B | B | A | B | B | C | B | B | C | | Loss to follow-up/withdrawal | A | C | C | C | B | A | A | A | B | C | | Comparability of baseline | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | B | B | B |
| | Quality assessment | Moderate quality | Low quality | Low quality | Low quality | Moderate quality | Moderate quality | Low quality | Moderate quality | Moderate quality | Low quality |
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