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The specific outcomes included the mean duration of surgery, the mean gain in air\u2010bone gap (ABG), and the rates of chorda tympani nerve (CTN) injury, CTN manipulation, facial nerve (FN) injury, tympanic membrane (TM) perforation, dysgeusia, dizziness, and pain score. Continuous data were analyzed using mean difference (MD) or standardized mean difference (SMD), and dichotomous data with risk ratio (RR), with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Eleven RCTs with 515 patients were analyzed. There was no significant difference between both groups in the mean duration of surgery (MD\u2009=\u2009\u221210.42, 95% CI [\u221226.26, 5.43]), mean gain in ABG (MD\u2009=\u20091.04, 95% CI [\u22120.48, 2.57]), CTN injury (RR\u2009=\u20090.46, 95% CI [0.20, 1.04]), FN injury (RR\u2009=\u20091.00, 95% CI [0.11, 9.27]), TM perforation (RR\u2009=\u20090.99, 95% CI [0.23, 4.25]), and dizziness (RR\u2009=\u20090.79, 95% CI [0.41, 1.53]). 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