Table 4. Sensitivity analysis of success rate.
| Heterogeneity | Meta-analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of studies | I 2 (%) | P | Model | Risk ratio | 95% CI | |
| Subgroup analysis | ||||||
| Anesthesia of infiltration anesthesia | ||||||
| intraseptal anesthesia | 2 | 74 | 0.05 | Random-effect | 0.91 | 0.68–1.23 |
| supraperiosteal anesthesia | 4 | 84 | 0.0004 | Random-effect | 0.98 | 0.71–1.34 |
| subperiosteal infiltration | 1 | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 0.75–1.34 |
| Sample size | ||||||
| ≤30 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 | Random-effect | 1.00 | 0.89–1.12 |
| >30 | 5 | 80 | 0.0006 | Random-effect | 0.94 | 0.72–1.22 |
| Adrenaline concentration | ||||||
| 1:80000 | 3 | 81 | 0.006 | Random-effect | 1.02 | 0.56–1.84 |
| 1:100000 | 3 | 69 | 0.04 | Random-effect | 0.87 | 0.71–1.07 |
| 1:200000 | 1 | NA | NA | NA | 1.36 | 1.04–1.79 |
| Sensitivity analysis | ||||||
| Brkovic et al., 2010 excluded | 6 | 77 | 0.0006 | Random-effect | 0.94 | 0.76–1.17 |
| Subramaniam et al., 2018 excluded | 6 | 77 | 0.0006 | Random-effect | 0.96 | 0.79–1.16 |
| Meechan 2002 excluded | 6 | 63 | 0.02 | Random-effect | 0.97 | 0.85–1.11 |
| Al-Shayyab et al., 2017 excluded | 6 | 68 | 0.009 | Random-effect | 1.00 | 0.84–1.19 |
| Jain 2018 excluded | 6 | 75 | 0.001 | Random-effect | 0.95 | 0.76–1.18 |
| Ryalat 2018 excluded | 6 | 79 | 0.0002 | Random-effect | 0.90 | 0.74–1.11 |
| Biocanin 2013 excluded | 6 | 72 | 0.003 | Random-effect | 1.00 | 0.84–1.19 |