Clinical Effectiveness of Different Irrigation Agents in Temporomandibular Arthrocentesis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

J Clin Med · 2025 · PMC12692754 · PMID 41375631

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a positive trendno p-value reported

Short-term results (within one week) indicated a positive trend in favor of ozonated water, but the meta-analytic estimates were not statistically significant.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

While ozonated water consistently showed the greatest increase in MMO across studies, the effect did not reach statistical significance in the quantitative synthesis, and therefore its superiority over other irrigants for this outcome cannot be confirmed.

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