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ReviewBioactive materials2019

Toward dental caries: Exploring nanoparticle-based platforms and calcium phosphate compounds for dental restorative materials.

Abdulrahman A Balhaddad, Anmar A Kansara, Denise Hidan, Michael D Weir, Hockin H K Xu, Mary Anne S Melo

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Review in Bioactive materials, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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71citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 172 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Abdulrahman A BalhaddadPh.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Anmar A KansaraPh.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Denise HidanDivision of Operative Dentistry, Dept. of General Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Michael D WeirPh.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Hockin H K XuPh.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Mary Anne S MeloPh.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of people worldwide suffer from a toothache due to tooth cavity, and often permanent tooth loss. Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is a biofilm-dependent infectious disease that damages teeth by minerals loss and presents a high incidence of clinical restorative polymeric fillings (tooth colored fillings). Until now, restorative polymeric fillings present no bioactivity. The complexity of oral biofilms contributes to the difficulty in developing effective novel dental materials. Nanotechnology has been explored in the development of bioactive dental materials to reduce or modulate the activities of caries-related bacteria. Nano-structured platforms based on calcium phosphate and metallic particles have advanced to impart an anti-caries potential to restorative materials. The bioactivity of these platforms induces prevention of mineral loss of the hard tooth structure and antibacterial activities against carries-related pathogens. It has been suggested that this bioactivity could minimize the incidence of caries around restorations (CARS) and increase the longevity of such filling materials. The last few years witnessed growing numbers of studies on the preparation evaluations of these novel materials. Herein, the caries disease process and the role of pathogenic caries-related biofilm, the increasing incidence of CARS, and the recent efforts employed for incorporation of bioactive nanoparticles in restorative polymer materials as useful strategies for prevention and management of caries-related-bacteria are discussed. We highlight the status of the most advanced and widely explored interaction of nanoparticle-based platforms and calcium phosphate compounds with an eye toward translating the potential of these approaches to the dental clinical reality.

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BioactiveDental cariesDental materialsNanoparticles

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PMID30582079
PMCPMC6299130
OpenAlexW2948000289

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