CCR	Complete Carious Tissue Removal
SCR	Selective Carious Tissue Removal
SWR	Stepwise Carious Tissue Removal
RCT	Randomized Clinical Trial
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
PRISMA-NMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Network Meta-Analyses
PROSPERO	International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews
PICO	Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome
RR	Risk Ratio
95% CI	95% Confidence Interval
RoB 2	Risk of Bias 2
FDI	Fédération Dentaire Internationale / World Dental Federation
NMA	Network Meta-Analysis
REML	Restricted Maximum Likelihood
QE	Test statistic for residual heterogeneity
HR	Hazard Ratio
ICC	Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
RD	Risk Difference
UME	Unrelated Mean Effects
HK	Hartung–Knapp
GRADE	Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation
CINeMA	Confidence in Network Meta-Analysis