Table 2: Overview data extracted from included studyr
| Authors | Sample characteristics (sample size and age range in months) | Study design | Tooth eruption and fever evaluation | Fever measurement | Description of the outcome assessment | Comments and/or limitations | Conclusions | ||||||||
| Ramos-Jorge etal10 | (n = 47), Age range: 5-15 | Prospective longitudinal Paired evaluation | Trained dentists evaluated tooth eruption and body temperature | Axillary and tympanic thermometers. Fever was recorded as continuous variable | Data collection began before the eruption of at least one incisor and ended 1 week after the eruption of the last incisor | In order to minimize the variation, the tooth eruption and the temperature evaluations were performed at the same time. Noninstitutionalized infants were used in order to reduce the bias of viral and bacterial infection dissemination in daycares. The exact periods of the temperature measurement were unclear | During eruption days children presented higher temperatures (p<0.01) | ||||||||
| Peretz et al8 | Eruption group, (n = 340), No eruption group, (n = 145), Age range: 4-36 | Case-control | Nurse evaluated the temperature. The person that evaluated the tooth eruption was unclear | The thermometer used was unclear. Fever was recorded as a dichotomous data | During the eruption of the incisors, fever was recorded | Did not report the fever as a continuous variable and did not report the type of the thermometer. Convenience sample from the Pediatric Clinic was used. The time of the evaluation was unclear | There was no association between fever and tooth eruption (p > 0.05) | ||||||||
| Wake etal11 | (n = 21), Age range: 6-24 | Prospective longitudinal Paired evaluation | Dental therapist evaluated tooth eruption and temperature | Tympanic thermometers. Fever was recorded as dichotomous and continuous variables | Analyses: 1st defining a toothday as any of the 5 days surrounding the eruption and 2nd, defining a toothday as any of the 5 days leading up to and including the eruption day | A convenience sample of children from a care center was used. Statistical analyses were not reported | There was no association between fever and tooth eruption (p > 0.05) | ||||||||
| Macknin et al7 | (n = 111), Age range: 3-5.6 | Prospective longitudinal Paired evaluation | Trained parents by pediatrician nurse | Tympanic thermometers. Fever was recorded as dichotomous variables | Parents were told to take measurements before recording the highest temperature reading. They should record the temperature twice a day (morning and evening) | A convenience sample of children from clinic-based group pediatric. Fever characterization and the evaluation of tooth eruption were not described | Tooth eruption was associated with slight temperature elevation (p > 0.05) | ||||||||
| Jaber et al12 | (n = 46), Age range: 6-18 | Prospective longitudinal Paired evaluation | Mothers and health care professional | Rectal temperature. Fever was recorded as a dichotomous data | Mothers recorded the temperature and were told to bring the baby for professional evaluation of the tooth eruption when it was suspected | The parents performed the fever analyses and did not receive a previous training | There was an association between fever and tooth eruption (p< 0.025) | ||||||||
| Galili etal13 | (n = 43), Age range: 5-23 | Prospective longitudinal Paired evaluation | Nurse evaluated the temperature. Dentist evaluated the tooth eruption | Rectal temperature. Fever was recorded as a dichotomous data | 7 days prior to the tooth eruption was designated as "tooth eruption" | A convenience sample of children from "baby home" | There was an association between fever and tooth eruption (p<0.05) |