Review Article
Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy and Dental Plaque: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Table 1
Quality scores of articles selected based on proposed evaluation scale.
| Authors and year | Sample | Study design | Control group | Blinding | Repetition of experiment | Total |
| Wilson et al., 1995 [19] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Wilson et al., 1996 [20] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Wood et al., 1999 [21] | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | O’Neill et al., 2002 [22] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Zanin et al., 2005 [16] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Wood et al., 2006 [23] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Zanin et al., 2006 [24] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Müller et al., 2007 [25] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Steinberg et al., 2008 [26] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Lima et al., 2009 [27] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Schneider et al., 2012 [14] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Chen et al., 2012 [28] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Silva et al., 2012 [29] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Teixeira et al., 2012 [30] | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | Pereira et al., 2013 [31] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Al-Ahmad et al., 2013 [32] | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Araújo et al., 2014 [33] | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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