Table 3.

Quantitative synthesis of the microbiological outcome of the included studies.

Study	Detection method	Microbial targets	Microbial findings inter group
Galofré et al., 2018	qPCR	Periodontal pathogens	P. gingivalis
Laleman et al., 2020	qPCR	Periodontal pathogens	No differences
Peña et al., 2019	qPCR	Periodontal pathogens	No differences
Hallström et al., 2016	DNA-DNA checkerboard	Periodontal pathogens	No differences
Tada et al., 2018	qPCR	Periodontal pathogens	No differences
Lauritano et al., 2019	qPCR	Periodontal pathogens	No differences

qPCR, quantitative PCR.