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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Sodium Hypochlorite Reduces Postoperative Discomfort and Painful Early Failure after Carious Exposure and Direct Pulp Capping-Initial Findings of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Nidambur Vasudev Ballal, Henry F Duncan, Namith Rai, Prateek Jalan, Matthias Zehnder

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nidambur Vasudev BallalDepartment of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2208-9443
Henry F DuncanDublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, D02 F859 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-8690-2379
Namith RaiDepartment of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India.
Prateek JalanDepartment of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India.
Matthias ZehnderDivision of Endodontology, Clinic of Conservative and Preventive Dentistry, University of Zürich, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9545-7828
Manipal Academy of Higher Education · INTrinity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this randomized controlled single-center clinical trial on 96 adult patients with parallel experimental groups (

Indexed as

cariesdisinfectionNaOClNRS-11postoperative painpulpitisvital pulp treatment

Identifiers

PMID32731401
PMCPMC7464668
OpenAlexW3045958024

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