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ReviewJournal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry

Nonthermal Plasma in Dentistry: An Update.

Rajeev Ranjan, P V Krishnamraju, Thatapudi Shankar, Snigdha Gowd

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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 12 papers.

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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. By any other name: searching for the right plasma nomenclature.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2025
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  9. Comprehensive biomedical applications of low temperature plasmas.Archives of biochemistry and biophysics · 2020
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  10. Cold Atmospheric Plasma: A Powerful Tool for Modern Medicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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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

4 authors.

Rajeev RanjanDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
P V KrishnamrajuDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Thatapudi ShankarDepartment of Prosthodontics, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Snigdha GowdDepartment of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent enormous progress in understanding of plasma physics and development of plasma jet has attracted focus on the application of plasma in medicine and dentistry. Active plasma ions, electrons, and photons have the ability to activate and control various biochemical procedures. Nonthermal plasma (NTP) is widely used for various therapeutic applications in health care. Particularly in dentistry, NTP holds big potential such as for bacterial inactivation, efficient sterilization, and treatment of dental caries. This review intends to provide information on potential NTP applications in dentistry.

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Bacterial inactivationdental cariesnonthermal plasmasterilization

Identifiers

PMID28584774
PMCPMC5452569

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