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ArticleSpecial care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry2021

Inflammation of papillae of Wharton's duct in COVID-19 patients: A debatable entity.

Abdul Salam Afsal, Najma Musthafa, Mundekattil Sulaiman Fathima, Geetha Gopalakrishnan Lakshmi

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Article in Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Comparative analysis of oral manifestations of Covid 19.Journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abdul Salam AfsalDepartment of Health Service, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6651-1733
Najma MusthafaAssistant Surgeon (Dentistry), Kerala, India.
Mundekattil Sulaiman FathimaDepartment of Health Service, Kerala, India.
Geetha Gopalakrishnan LakshmiDepartment of Health Service, Kerala, India.
Government of Kerala · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansInflammationSalivaSalivary DuctsCOVID-19submandibular salivary glandWharton's duct

Identifiers

PMID33026110
PMCPMC7675480
OpenAlexW3092532353

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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