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ArticleJournal of lasers in medical sciences2016

Effect of Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy as an Adjunct to Nonsurgical Treatment of Deep Periodontal Pockets: A Clinical Study.

Abdul Ahad, Arundeep Kaur Lamba, Farrukh Faraz, Shruti Tandon, Kirti Chawla, Neha Yadav

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Article in Journal of lasers in medical sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Effect of Er:YAG laser combined with ethylenediamine tetra acetic acid on three-walled periodontal intrabony defects adjacent to implant sites.Hua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Abdul AhadDepartment of Periodontics, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmad Dental College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Arundeep Kaur LambaDepartment of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India.
Farrukh FarazDepartment of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India.
Shruti TandonDepartment of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India.
Kirti ChawlaDepartment of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India.
Neha YadavDepartment of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antimicrobial therapyDiode laserPeriodontal pocketPeriodontitisPhotodynamic therapy

Identifiers

PMID28491256
PMCPMC5415498

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