Editorial
Weekly fixed-template summaries of clinical trials relevant to dental tourism, endodontics, and implant dentistry. Patients first, absolute numbers, named external-validity question, falsification condition for the conclusion.
Trial of the Week is a weekly slot. The format is fixed: who was in the trial (patients), what was done and what was measured (procedures and endpoints), how the result holds up across pre-specified subgroups, and what the conclusion is, with the named external-validity question that decides whether the result applies to you. Absolute numbers over relative ones. Industry funding named when present.
Trial of the week
Cochrane systematic reviews on immediate, early, and conventional implant loading have, over multiple iterations, produced a stable conclusion: pooled implant failure rates are similar between protocols in the cases the …
Trial of the week
Registry-grade survival data is the most honest evidence we have on implant outcomes. Here's what it shows, why the numbers are better than you'd hear from a clinic's marketing, and why they're worse than what a clinical …
Trial of the week
Porcelain veneers survive at 94% to five years and 91% to ten years in the controlled settings that produce Cochrane-eligible data. The question worth asking is whether those settings bear any resemblance to the …
Trial of the week
A 23-centre Iranian trial randomised 407 mature molars with irreversible pulpitis to vital pulp therapy or root canal treatment and followed them for five years. The success rates were the same. The implications for the …