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. 2015 Sep 30;10(9):e0139030. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139030

Table 3. Magnitude of the influence (in percentage) of different levels of risk of bias on the treatment effect estimates (only comparisons with at least 5 studies in each ROB group).

Study Treatments Domains Domains comparison Outcome measure Effect P Value
Yaacob et al. 2014 All powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Sequence generation and sequence generation or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Plaque scores at 1 to 3 months at all sites 35.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.535
Yaacob et al. 2014 All powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Allocation concealment and allocation concealment or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Plaque scores at 1 to 3 months at all sites 142.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.405
Yaacob et al. 2014 All powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Sequence generation and sequence generation or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Löe and Silness index 21.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.846
Yaacob et al. 2014 All powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Allocation concealment and allocation concealment or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Löe and Silness index 39.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.459
Yaacob et al. 2014 All powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Löe and Silness index 131.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.053
Yaacob et al. 2014 Rotation oscillation powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Sequence generation and sequence generation or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Plaque scores at 1 to 3 months at all sites 24.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.471
Yaacob et al. 2014 Rotation oscillation powered toothbrushes versus manual toothbrushes Sequence generation and sequence generation or blinding of outcome assessment Unclear versus low ROB Gingival scores at 1 to 3 months at all sites 193.00% higher in unclear ROB 0.069