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SynthesisMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal2017

Do topical applications of bisphosphonates improve bone formation in oral implantology? A systematic review.

N Lozano-Carrascal, O Salomó-Coll, F Hernández-Alfaro, S-A Gehrke, J Gargallo-Albiol, J-L Calvo-Guirado

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

N Lozano-CarrascalFaculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Carrer de Josep Trueta s/n, 08195 Sant Cugat del Vallés Barcelona, Spain, oscarsalomo@uic.es.
O Salomó-Coll
F Hernández-Alfaro
S-A Gehrke
J Gargallo-Albiol
J-L Calvo-Guirado
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya · ESUniversidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this systematic literature review was to evaluate the feasibility of topical bisphosphonate application for preserving/enhancing alveolar bone in oral implantology. MATERIAL AND

methodsAn electronic search was conducted in the PubMed/Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of knowledge, and Google-Scholar databases for articles dated from January 2000 to December 2016. Two reviewers assessed the quality of the studies independently.

resultsA total of 154 abstracts were identified, of which 18 potentially relevant articles were selected; a final total of nine papers were included for analysis. Comparison of the findings of the selected studies was made difficult by the heterogeneity of the articles, all of them animal research papers that showed heterogeneity in the methodologies used and a high or moderate risk of bias.

conclusionsThe topical application of bisphosphonate solution would appear to favor new bone formation in alveolar defects, and boosts the regenerative capacities of biomaterials resulting in increased bone density.

Indexed as

Dental ImplantationAdministration, TopicalAnimalsBone Density Conservation AgentsBone RegenerationDiphosphonatesFeasibility StudiesHumansBone Density Conservation AgentsDiphosphonates

Identifiers

PMID28624840
PMCPMC5549526
OpenAlexW2766268250

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