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ArticleJournal of lasers in medical sciences2017

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy With Low-level Diode Laser in Nonsurgical Treatment of Peri-implantitis.

Ehsan Birang, Mohammad Reza Talebi Ardekani, Mahboobeh Rajabzadeh, Gloria Sarmadi, Reza Birang, Norbert Gutknecht

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Article in Journal of lasers in medical sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Photoinactivation and Photoablation ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Photodynamic Therapy for Peri-Implant Diseases.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ehsan BirangSchool of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Reza Talebi ArdekaniDepartment of Periodontics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mahboobeh RajabzadehTorabinejad Dental Research Center, Department of Periodontics, School of dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Gloria SarmadiTorabinejad Dental Research Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Reza BirangTorabinejad Dental Research Center, Department of Periodontics, School of dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Norbert GutknechtDepartment of Conservative Dentistry, Rwth Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRRWTH Aachen University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

LaserPhotodynamic therapyPhotosensitizer

Identifiers

PMID29123634
PMCPMC5662503
OpenAlexW2727027226

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.