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ArticleClinical case reports2020

Dental management of scleroderma patients using pentoxifylline plus vitamin E with and without TheraBite

Daniel N Reed, David L Hall, James H Cottle, Katherine Frimenko, Christina K Horton, Farah Abu Sharkh, Rachel Beckett, Brandon Hernandez, Hannah Mabe, Shadee T Mansour and 3 more

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel N ReedGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
David L HallGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-5241
James H CottleGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Katherine FrimenkoGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Christina K HortonGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Farah Abu SharkhGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Rachel BeckettGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Brandon HernandezGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Hannah MabeGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Shadee T MansourGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Sebastian A RodriguezGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Bradley WeprinGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
Leigh E YarboroughGPR Ohio State University College of Dentistry Columbus OH USA.
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To provide evidence supporting the off label use of pentoxifylline and vitamin E especially by dentists with TheraByte to reduce trismus in scleroderma patients.

Indexed as

pentoxifyllinesclerodermaThera Bite®trismusVitE

Identifiers

PMID32128166
PMCPMC7044382
OpenAlexW2999980408

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