Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

Welcome to McGill Critically Appraised Topics in Dentistry (Dental CATs)

Every year, McGill Faculty of Dentistry and the McGill Library collaborate to teach the principles of Evidence-Based Dentistry.  As part of this, faculty, students and the Library search the literature related to a particular problem in dentistry and oral health, critically appraise it, extract the main salient points, and provide a critical summary and clinical bottom line.  Starting with 2019, these Critically Appraised Topics, or CATs, are then published here.

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• The effect of an established dental home on caries control in children
• A lack of evidence for the superiority of digital over conventional impressions in crown marginal fit
• Stabilization appliance therapy can be helpful in reducing pain associated with temporomandibular joint disorders
• Unfinished endodontic treatment and the presence of apical infections may increase the risk of CVD
• Subepithelial connective tissue graft may yield greater root coverage than acellular dermal matrix graft
• Silver Diamine Fluoride can be effective in arresting caries in a pediatric population
• No clinically meaningful difference in implant survival rates between immediate vs delayed protocols
• Socket preservation may be an effective method of preserving alveolar ridge anatomy after tooth extraction
• Certain psychosocial interventions may be more effective than other treatment modalities in improving pain symptoms in adults with temporomandibular disorder