Trial reportLasers in medical science2020
The impact of photobiomodulation of major salivary glands on caries risk.
Trial report in Lasers in medical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of low-level light therapy on xerostomia related to hyposalivation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials.Lasers in medical science · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of led photobiomodulation on tooth movement, gingival hypertrophy and pain in response to treatment with fixed orthodontic appliance.Lasers in medical science · 2025Trial
- Management of radiotherapy-induced hyposalivation using photobiomodulation therapy: a case series.Lasers in medical science · 2025Trial
- Diode-laser-assisted biopsy and photobiomodulation therapy in the management of Sjögren's disease: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2026Article
- The Effect of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Its Therapy on Salivary Caries Risk Factors-An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perspectives on non-genetic optoelectronic modulation biointerfaces for advancing healthcare.Med-X · 2024Article
- Efficacy of Photobiomodulation in Reducing Symptomatology and Improving the Quality of Life in Patients with Xerostomia and Hyposalivation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Laser-Doppler microvascular flow of dental pulp in relation to caries progression.Lasers in medical science · 2022Article
- The Current Strategies in Controlling Oral Diseases by Herbal and Chemical Materials.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Review
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Abstract
Dental caries is a complex multifactorial chronic infectious disease guided by several risk or protective factors. Saliva has an important role in caries and the remineralization process. Caries risk assessment is defined as the probability of new caries lesion development or the existing lesion progression in a given time period. Caries diagnostics and risk factor assessment are followed by targeted elimination of risk factors and less conservative but abundant preventive therapeutic measures. The aim of our prospective randomized study was to elucidate on how photobiomodulation of major salivary glands with polychromatic light or LED light affects caries risk factors in high caries-risk patients. Thirty-six patients were assigned to one of the following three experimental groups: the first, irradiated with polarized polychromatic light (40 mW/cm
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