Influência da ausência do ponto de contato nos parâmetros periodontais: revisão sistemática

Abstract

Introduction: There is no sufficient evidence of the contribution of proximal contact points on the integrity of periodontal tissue.. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the existing evidence on the absence of interproximal contact point and its influence on the development of periodontal alterations. Methods: Scielo, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed - Medline, Cochrane, Lilacs databases and the grey literature accessed through Google Scholar and Open Grey were searched until January 2023 and 17034 articles were evaluated. Publications were assessed for eligibility using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale Results: One hundred thirty-eight articles were assessed for titles and abstracts and five cross-sectional observational studies met the criteria and were included for analysis. Four studies concluded that the absence of the contact point does not influence periodontal parameters and one study found that missing proximal contacts were associated with greater probing depth. However, only studies with moderate and low quality of evidence were found due to the high risk of bias.. Conclusions: Although the included studies indicate no influence of the absence of the interproximal contact point on periodontal parameters, the low level of quality of the studies weakens this finding.