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ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2015

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Zeeshan Sheikh, Mohamed-Nur Abdallah, Ahmed Abdalla Hanafi, Syed Misbahuddin, Haroon Rashid, Michael Glogauer

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Review in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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81citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Zeeshan SheikhFaculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada. zeeshan.sheikh@utoronto.ca.
Mohamed-Nur AbdallahFaculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada. mohamed.abdallah@mail.mcgill.ca.
Ahmed Abdalla HanafiFaculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo 11553, Egypt. ahmed.hanafy@dentistry.cu.edu.eg.
Syed MisbahuddinFaculty of Dentistry, Department of Dental Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada. syed.misbahuddin@mail.utoronto.ca.
Haroon RashidCollege of Dentistry, Division of Prosthodontics, Ziauddin University, Karachi 75530, Pakistan. drh.rashid@hotmail.com.
Michael GlogauerMatrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada. Michael.Glogauer@utoronto.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calcium phosphate ceramic materials are extensively used for bone replacement and regeneration in orthopedic, dental, and maxillofacial surgical applications. In order for these biomaterials to work effectively it is imperative that they undergo the process of degradation and resorption

Indexed as

calcium phosphatedegradationimplantationin vivoresorption

Identifiers

PMID28793687
PMCPMC5458904

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