International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Systematic ReviewTMJ DisordersPlatelet-rich plasma for the therapeutic management of temporomandibular joint disorders: a systematic review
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Materials and methods
The aim of this review was to test the null hypothesis that the treatment of degenerative TMD with intra-articular injections of PRP is not superior to intra-articular injection of another substance.
A systematic literature review was performed following the guidelines of the PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)26. The first step in the systematic review was to use the PICO format to define a clinical question: the population (P) was patients with
Search results
The search strategy used identified 153 records, 143 from the MEDLINE database and 14 from Scopus. Following the removal of duplicates, 140 results remained. The abstracts of the remaining articles were screened against the inclusion criteria, with 10 then chosen for further analysis. Of the 10 full-text articles examined, only six fulfilled the inclusion criteria (PRISMA flow diagram, Fig. 1). The studies reported in the other four articles were not RCTs and by extension were not included in
Discussion
This systematic review gathered and analyzed the existing literature on the therapeutic management of degenerative TMD with PRP injections. It was limited to RCTs in order to include studies of high methodological quality and to provide the highest level of evidence on the subject. However, due to the lack of homogeneity among the studies included, a meta-analysis could not be performed. The studies included shared a common philosophy for the application of PRP as a treatment modality in
Funding
This study was conducted with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), which was funded by the action “Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research” from the resources of the European Program “Development of Human Potential, Education and Lifelong Learning”, 2014–2020, with funds from European Social Fund (ESF) and national resources.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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