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SynthesisPediatric dentistry2019

Risk Factors for Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Case Control and Cohort Studies.

M Kirthiga, Muthu Murugan, Ankita Saikia, Richard Kirubakaran

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Pediatric dentistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07330570 (The Evaluation of Current Caries Risk in Children Treated Under General Anesthesia Due to Early Childhood Caries Between 2015-2020), which is not on this map. Cited by 118 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
118citing papers in PubMed, 11 pooled it
12.2field-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.

NCT07330570 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

The Evaluation of Current Caries Risk in Children Treated Under General Anesthesia Due to Early Childhood Caries Between 2015-2020

TypeobservationalSponsorAydin Adnan Menderes UniversityRan2025 to 2026Enrolled44ConditionsEarly Childhood Caries (ECC)ArmsCaries Risk Assesment
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Effect of sleep on development of early childhood caries: a systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2023
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  11. Is the mode of childbirth delivery linked to the prevalence of early childhood caries? A systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2021
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  15. Effect of a Short-Term Intervention withInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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58 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

M KirthigaDr. M is an Early Career Research fellow (Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance), Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Muthu MuruganDr. Murugan is Head of Center for Early Childhood Caries Research (CECCRe), Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu;, Email: muthumurugan@gmail.com.
Ankita SaikiaDr. Saikia is a pediatric dental surgeon, Pedo Planet - Children's Dental Centre, Chennai.
Richard KirubakaranDr. Kirubakaran is a biostatistician, South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research · INChristian Medical College, Vellore · INSRM Dental College · IN

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/CPHE/17/1/503352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Dental CariesDental EnamelDMF IndexHumansRisk FactorsStreptococcus mutans

Identifiers

PMID30992106
PMCPMC7100045
OpenAlexW2982888267

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Registered trials

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