Do we need a randomized controlled trial to assess trivial, albeit standard used, clinical steps in bonding? The answer is yes, but there are some interpretation issues | Zendy

Theodore Eliades | Zendy

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Do we need a randomized controlled trial to assess trivial, albeit standard used, clinical steps in bonding? The answer is yes, but there are some interpretation issues

Author(s) -

Theodore Eliades

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

european journal of orthodontics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.252

H-Index - 84

eISSN - 1460-2210

pISSN - 0141-5387

DOI - 10.1093/ejo/cju026

Subject(s) - randomized controlled trial , directive , interpretation (philosophy) , process (computing) , medical physics , computer science , psychology , medicine , surgery , programming language , operating system

The feasibility of generalizing and extrapolating the results of the RCT assessing the necessity of a bonding stage to the routine clinical situation is discussed in this commentary. The lack of difference in failure rate between the two procedures followed may not receive the dimensions of a directive to alter a step of the bonding process, before other factors related to the performance of the materials are considered.

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