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ArticleJournal of dentistry (Shiraz, Iran)2018

Prevalence of Anaerobic Bacteria (P.gingivalis) as Major Microbial Agent in the Incidence Periodontal Diseases by Meta-analysis.

Mohammad Rafiei, Faezeh Kiani, Kourosh Sayehmiri, Fatemeh Sayehmiri, Mostafa Tavirani, Majid Dousti, Abdolkarim Sheikhi

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Article in Journal of dentistry (Shiraz, Iran), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mohammad RafieiDept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Faezeh KianiStudent Research Committee, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Kourosh SayehmiriDept. of Social Medicine, Dept. of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Fatemeh SayehmiriProteomics Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mostafa TaviraniProteomics Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Majid DoustiDept. of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Fars, Iran.
Abdolkarim SheikhiDept. of Immunology, School of Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Khuzestan, Iran.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRArak University of Medical Sciences · IRMedical University of Ilam · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

statement of the problemPeriodontal diseases are complex oral diseases characterized by bacterial-induced inflammatory destruction of tooth-supporting tissues. PURPOSE: The present study was conducted to estimate prevalence of MARTIALS AND

methodDifferent databases including PubMed, EmBase, Scopus, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched to identify original English-language studies addressing prevalence of

resultsForty-two eligible studies published during 1993- 2016 were selected for meta-analysis. Considering all the included studies, the total sample size was 5,884 individuals containing 2,576 healthy people with a mean age of 37.21±7.45 years and 3,308 periodontal patients with a mean age of 44.16±8.35 years. Overall, the prevalence of

conclusionThis study indicates that

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Aggressive periodontitisChronic periodontitisGingivitisPeriodontal diseasesPorphyromonas gingivalis

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PMID30175194
PMCPMC6092461
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