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ReviewJournal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry

Evaluation of the oral component of Sjögren's syndrome: An overview.

Georges Aoun, Ibrahim Nasseh, Antoine Berberi

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Review in Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Georges AounDepartment of Oral Pathology and Diagnosis, Faculty of Dentistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ibrahim NassehDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Antoine BerberiDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Lebanese University · LB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by lymphocytic infiltration, and consequently hypofunction of lacrimal and salivary glands. The loss of salivary function induces oral dryness (xerostomia). This review focuses on methods for determining salivary gland function including clinical signs, salivary flow rate measurements (sialometry), analysis of salivary composition (sialochemistry), histopathological and radiologic examinations, and other recent advanced techniques.

Indexed as

Biopsylabial salivary glandsialochemistrysialographysialometrySjögren's syndromexerostomia

Identifiers

PMID27583213
PMCPMC4981927
OpenAlexW2475759678

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