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ReviewDentistry journal2015

Dentinogenic Specificity in the Preclinical Evaluation of Vital Pulp Treatment Strategies: A Critical Review.

Dimitrios Tziafas, Konstantinos Kodonas

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Review in Dentistry journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Dimitrios TziafasDepartment of Endodontology, School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece. dtziaf@dent.auth.gr.
Konstantinos KodonasDepartment of Endodontology, School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece. kkodonas@gmail.com.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GREuropean University College · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reviews on the clinical performance of vital pulp treatment strategies and capping materials repeatedly showed an insufficient grade of evidence concerning their therapeutic validity. The biological mechanisms underlying the regenerative potential of pulp-dentin complex have attracted much attention during the last two decades, since new pulp treatment modalities have been designed and tested at the preclinical level. It has been recognized that evaluation should be based on the specific ability of therapeutic interventions to signal recruitment and differentiation of odontoblast-like cells forming a matrix in a predentin-like pattern, rather than uncontrolled hard tissue deposition in a scar-like form. The aim of the present article was to critically review data from histological experimental studies on pulp capping, published during the last 7 decades. A comprehensive literature search covering the period from 1949 to 2015 was done using the Medline/Pubmed database. Inclusion of a study was dependent on having sufficient data regarding the type of capping material used and the unit of observation (human permanent tooth

Indexed as

calcium hydroxidecalcium silicatehard tissue bridgehistology of dental pulpMineral Trioxide Aggregates (MTA)pulp cappingpulp capping materialsreparative dentin

Identifiers

PMID29567934
PMCPMC5851195
OpenAlexW2178950905

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Registered trials

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