Occlusal rehabilitation in patients with congenitally missing teeth—dental implants, conventional prosthetics, tooth autotransplants, and preservation of deciduous teeth—a systematic review

International Journal of Implant Dentistry

Table 1 Logical deduction of the literature search phrase from the PICO questionable

Patients	Intervention	Control	Outcomes
Patients with congenitally missing teeth	Rehabilitation	Tooth autotransplants	General:
	Dental implants	Preservation of deciduous teeth	Implant/tooth survival/success
	Bone augmentation	Conventional prosthodontic treatment	Prosthesis survival/success
		Orthodontic treatment	Craniofacial growth
			Patient reported:
			Quality of life
			Self-esteem
			Satisfaction
			Chewing function
Synonyms, search terms, search phrase
• Anodontia (MeSH)	• Rehabilitation	• Autotransplan*	• Survival
• Hypodontia	• Dental implan* (MeSH)	• Crown (MeSH)	• Success
• Oligodontia	• Alveolar bone grafting (MeSH)	• Dentur* (MeSH)	• Growth
• Tooth aplasia	• Bone augmentation	• Dental Prosthe* (MeSH)	• Quality of life (MeSH)
• Tooth agenesis		• Orthodonti* (MeSH)	• Satisfaction
• Congenitally missing teeth		• Tooth deciduous (MeSH)	• Self-esteem
• Developmentally absent teeth			• Chewing
• Birth defects			• Masticat* (MeSH)
• Noncarious defects			• Masticat* (MeSH)
• Ectodermal dysplasia
AND (tooth OR teeth OR dental)

Boolean operators: (Within column OR, columns AND except intervention and control OR) AND (tooth OR teeth OR dental)
NOT cancer, ophthalm*, brain, cataract
Filter: humans
Search phrase
(tooth OR teeth OR dental) AND ((anodontia OR aplas* OR agenesis OR oligodontia OR hypodontia OR developmentally absent OR congenitally missing OR noncarious OR birth defect OR ectodermal dysplasia) AND ((rehabilitation OR dental implant* OR bone augment* OR alveolar bone grafting) OR (autotransplan* OR crown OR denture* OR dental prosth* OR orthodont* OR deciduous )) AND (survival OR success OR growth OR quality of life OR satisfaction OR self-esteem OR chewing OR masticat*) NOT cancer NOT ophthalm* NOT brain NOT cataract))