Table 2: Meta-analysis and estimation of significance levels between methods.
| Study |
Time required (Mean ± SD) (min) |
P-Value |
| Rotary or |
Carisolv™ |
| Ericson-1999 |
4.4 ± 0.5 |
10.4 ± 0.59 |
< 0.0001 |
| Fure-2000 |
4.5 ± 0.39 |
5.9 ± 0.38 |
0.0138 |
| Kakaboura-2003 |
6.8 ± 0.42 |
12.2 ± 0.61 |
< 0.0001 |
| Rafique-2003 |
6.3 ± 0.28 |
5.4 ± 0.51 |
0.1295 |
| Kavvadia-2004 |
2.8 ± 0.37 |
8.1 ± 0.66 |
< 0.0001 |
| Irena-2005 |
5.9 ± 0.87 |
10.5 ± 0.78 |
< 0.0001 |
| Bergmann-2005 |
3.3 ± 0.34 |
6.7 ± 0.43 |
< 0.0001 |
| Peters-2006 |
1.34 ± 0.29 |
8.06 ± 0.61 |
< 0.0001 |
| Lozano-Chourio-2006 |
2.47 ± 0.29 |
7.51 ± 0.33 |
< 0.0001 |
| Pandit-2007 |
4.28 ± 0.24 |
8.9 ± 0.53 |
< 0.0001 |
| Inglehart-2007 |
1.34 ± 0.29 |
8.06 ± 0.61 |
< 0.0001 |
| Hosein-2008 |
7.4 ± 0.59 |
12.19 ± 0.68 |
< 0.0001 |
| Peric-2009 |
5.2 ± 0.36 |
11.2 ± 0.43 |
< 0.0001 |
| Bohari-2012 |
3.45 ± 0.07 |
7.91 ± 0.13 |
< 0.0001 |
| Goomer-2013 |
3.37 ± 0.16 |
14.17 ± 0.29 |
< 0.0001 |
| Hamama-2013 |
4.14 ± 0.11 |
6.46 ± 0.56 |
0.0011 |
| Meta Analysis |
|
|
|
| Fixed Effect Model |
3.65 ± 0.05 |
8.65 ± 0.09 |
< 0.0001 |
| |
I2 = 96.37 % |
I2 = 97.72 % |
|
| Random Effect Model |
4.09 ± 0.29 |
8.97 ± 0.66 |
< 0.0001 |
| |
I2 = 56.71 % |
I2 = - 9.36 % |
|