ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Dental Unit Waterlines in Quito and Caracas Contaminated with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: A Potential Health Risk in Dental Practice.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Bacterial biofilm prevalence in dental unit waterlines: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2023Pooled it
- Dental unit waterlines in Israel: evidence of widespread microbial contamination and a need for national regulation.Israel journal of health policy research · 2026Article
- Detection of non-tuberculous mycobacteria and other bacterial pathogens in dental unit waterlines, 2024, Germany: a microbiological single-centre study.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2026Article
- Species Diversity of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Dental Unit Waterlines: Implications for Infection Control and Clinical Practice.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Review
- In vitro evaluation of hypochlorous acid-silver nanoparticle waterline disinfectant for dental unit waterline disinfection.BMC chemistry · 2025Article
- Decoding water quality across urban and rural dental clinics: insights from an observational study.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- Managing Complicated Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections in Plastic Surgery.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024Article
- Pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial community changes in dental unit waterlines after chlorogenic acid treatment.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- First water safety plan approach applied to a Dental Clinic complex: identification of new risk factors associated withJournal of oral microbiology · 2023Review
- Activity of Ozonated Water in Sterilising and Disinfecting Dental Unit Water Pipelines System: A Comparative Study.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2022Article
- InvasiveOpen forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- An Eventual Sars-CoV-2 Infection Prevention Protocol in the Medical Setting and Dental Office.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Odontogenic cutaneous sinus tracts due to infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria: a report of three cases.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Three cases of severe odontogenic infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Venezuela that were directly associated with dental procedures and the finding of dental unit waterlines (DUWLs) in dental offices that were colonized with mycobacteria species was the reason for assessing the water quality of DUWLs in dental offices in two capital cities in South America, namely, Quito and Caracas. The main water supplies and the water from 143 DUWLs in both cities were sampled and especially checked for contamination with NTM. To measure the overall bacteriological quality of the water also the presence of heterotrophic bacteria, coliform bacteria, and
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.