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ArticleJournal of Indian Society of Periodontology2011

Probiotics in periodontal health and disease.

Anirban Chatterjee, Hirak Bhattacharya, Abhishek Kandwal

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Article in Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The impact of prebiotics and probiotics on the oral microbiome of individuals with periodontal disease: a scoping review.Canadian journal of dental hygiene : CJDH = Journal canadien de l'hygiene dentaire : JCHD · 2024
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  8. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  13. The oralome and its dysbiosis: New insights into oral microbiome-host interactions.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021
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  18. Review of probiotic use in otolaryngology.American journal of otolaryngology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anirban ChatterjeeDepartment of Periodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Hirak Bhattacharya
Abhishek Kandwal

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macfarlane Burnett stated in 1962 that "By the late twentieth century, we can anticipate the virtual elimination of infectious diseases as a significant factor in social life". Probiotics have become of interest to researchers in recent times. Time has come to shift the paradigm of treatment from specific bacteria elimination to altering bacterial ecology by probiotics. The development of resistance to a range of antibiotics by some important pathogens has raised the possibility of a return to the pre-antibiotic dark ages. Here, probiotics provide an effective alternative way, which is economical and natural to combat periodontal disease. Thus, a mere change in diet by including probiotic foods may halt, retard, or even significantly delay the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases, promoting a healthy lifestyle to fight periodontal infections.

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Prebioticsprobioticssymbiotic

Identifiers

PMID21772717
PMCPMC3134041
OpenAlexW2027512354

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