What is the recent evidence that merit composite resin for direct tooth restorations (as compared to amalgam as current gold standard)? [November 18, 2016]

Search result: Four clinical controlled trials were found between the period of 2004 and 2015 (19.11.15).

Clinical outcomes: The results show that composite resin performs less satisfactory when compared to amalgam.The current level of clinical evidence to this topic is still limited in quantity and quality and more trials are needed in order to confirm these results.

[‘Preliminary Systematic Literature Searches’ are based on SYSTEM’s periodic systematic searches of the dental literature and provide first overviews over existing clinical evidence but are limited in the number of databases searched, as well as the assessment of precision and internal validity of results and thus do not replace the need for a full systematic review report to the topic]