Complexity and efficacy of mandibular advancement splints: understanding their mode of action.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of oral mandibular advancement devices and continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea.Sleep medicine reviews · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Objective measurement of compliance during oral appliance therapy for sleep-disordered breathing.Thorax · 2013
   Trial
3. Oral Appliances in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
   Review
4. An update on mandibular advancement devices for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea hypopnoea syndrome.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018
   Review
5. In vitro retention of a new thermoplastic titratable mandibular advancement device.F1000Research · 2015
   Article
6. Retention of mandibular advancement devices in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: an in vitro pilot study.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2014
   Article
7. Evaluation of drug-induced sleep endoscopy as a patient selection tool for implanted upper airway stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2013
   Article
8. Updates in oral appliance therapy for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2013
   Review
9. Mandibular advancement splint as short-term alternative treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea already effectively treated with continuous positive airway pressure.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2013
   Article
10. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) for non-CPAP treatment selection in patients with sleep-disordered breathing.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2013
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Comparison of adjustable and fixed oral appliances for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.2011

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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