There’s no single scale that fits the entire field — each dental specialty produces different effect sizes. That’s why new guidelines are needed to show which effects truly appear in research and how large the study samples must be to confirm them with proper statistical power.

The latest study delivers the first wide-ranging dataset for dentistry.
It reconstructs the real “landscape of effects” — the values reported in the literature, how often they occur, and within what ranges.

This episode breaks down what that means for research planning, clinical decision-making and the future of evidence-based dentistry.

This content was developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools: DeepDive (Notebook LM, Google).

In Search of the Right Measure. A new definition of effect sizes in dentistry

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In Search of the Right Measure. A new definition of effect sizes in dentistry

Wroclaw Medical University