Table 1 Search strategy for MEDLINE (HOST: EBSCO).

From: Does immediate loading of a single implant in the healed anterior maxillary ridge improve the aesthetic outcome compared to conventional loading?

Immediate implant-supported fixed provisional restoration.

Immediate (temporary or provisional or interim) N5 (crown or restoration or prosthesis)

(MH “dental prosthesis, implant-supported”)

(MH “dental restoration, temporary”)

Immediate loading

Aesthetic scores

“Pink? esthetic score*”

PES

“Modified pink? esthetic score”

“Mod*PES”

“White? esthetic score*”

WES

“Papilla index N3 score*”

“?esthetic* N2 outcome”

Delayed implant-supported fixed provisional restoration.

Delayed (temporary or provisional or interim) N5 (crown or restoration or prosthesis)

(MH “dental prosthesis, implant-supported”)

(MH “dental restoration, temporary”)

Delayed loading

Single implant

Implants* “single N3 implant” “endosseous implant*”

(MH “dental implants”)

(MH “dental implants, single-tooth”)

#

Query

S24

S5 AND S12 AND S17 AND S23

S23

S18 OR S19 OR S20 OR S21 OR S22

S22

(MH “dental implants, single-tooth”)

S21

(MH “dental implants”)

S20

TX “endosseous implant*”

S19

TX “single N3 implant”

S18

TX implants*

S17

S13 OR S14 OR S15 OR S16

S16

TX delayed loading

S15

(MH “dental restoration, temporary”)

S14

(MH “dental prosthesis, implant-supported”)

S13

TX Delayed (temporary or provisional or interim) N5 (crown or restoration or prosthesis)

S12

S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9 OR S10 OR S11

S11

TX WES

S10

TX “White? esthetic score*”

S9

TX “Mod*PES”

S8

TX “Modified pink? esthetic score”

S7

TX PES

S6

TX “Pink? esthetic score*”

S5

S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4

S4

Immediate loading

S3

(MH “dental restoration, temporary”)

S2

(MH “dental prosthesis, implant-supported”)

S1

TX immediate (temporary or provisional or interim) N5 (crown or restoration or prosthesis)

  1. Asterisk (*) and question mark (?) were used as wildcards to maximise search results. An asterisk (*) was used to specify any number of characters at the end of a root word. A question mark (?) was used to represent a single character, anywhere in the word when there are variable spellings for a word.
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