Magnetic resonance imaging for jawbone assessment: a systematic review

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Table 3 Certainty assessment (GRADE)

Certainty assessment
No. of studies	Study design	Risk of bias	Indirectness	Inconsistency	Imprecision	Other considerations	Certainty of evidence
9	Cross-sectional	serious^a	serious ^b	not serious	serious^c	none	⊕OOO very low

^amost studies presented high risk of bias for patient selection.
^bstudies were heterogeneous regarding study design.
^cstudies were heterogeneous regarding index and reference imaging protocols and outcomes evaluated.

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