Systematic review:
Significant findings favour self ligating
- Time to tie an archwire: 107 seconds (CI 95%: -111 -103)
- Time to remove an archwire: 23 seconds (CI 95%: -27 -18)
- Bleeding on probing (at 4 weeks): -0.10 (CI 95%: -0.12 – -0.08)
- Expansion inter-canine width: 0.5mm (CI 95%: -0.91 – -0.11)
Significant findings favour conventional ligating
- Pain perception (in 19x25SS): 18 (CI 95%: -5.4 -31.1)
- Expansion inter-molar width: 0.5mm (CI 95%: 0.07-0.94)
Significant findings in favour of active self ligating
- Time to align mandibular teeth: 10 days (CI 95%: -17.8 -2.3)
Non significant finding
- Treatment duration: 0.94 (CI 95%: -0.39-2.26)
- Total number of appointments: 0.35 (CI 95%: -0.67-1.36)
- Time to align mandibular teeth: No difference Vs conventional ligation 55 days (CI 95%: -122-232)
- Reduction in irregularity: 0.10 (CI 95%: -0.7-0.5)
- Speed of space closure: -10 (CI 95%: -0.31-0.11)
- Pain perception in alignment
- Bracket failure rate: -47 (CI 95%: 0.58-3.79)
- Treatment outcomes: PAR / ICON
- IMPA: -25 (CI 95%: 1.05-1.56)
- Root resorption: -05 (CI 95%: -2.60- 0.50)
References
Maizeray, R., Wagner, D., Lévy-Bénichou, H., Lefebvre, F. and Bolender, Y., 2019. IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL, PASSIVE SELF-LIGATING AND ACTIVE SELF-LIGATING BRACKETS? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NETWORK META-ANALYSIS: 254. European Journal of Orthodontics, 41(5).
