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ArticleJournal of lasers in medical sciences2020

Effect of a Combination of Photodynamic Therapy and Chitosan on

Armin Mirfasihi, Beheshteh Malek Afzali, Hosna Ebrahimi Zadeh, Khashayar Sanjari, Maziar Mir

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Article in Journal of lasers in medical sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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 2 countries.

Armin MirfasihiAssistant Professor, Periodontology Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Beheshteh Malek AfzaliAssociate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental Research Center, Research Institute of Dental Science, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hosna Ebrahimi ZadehDental Research Center, Restorative Department, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Khashayar SanjariDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Maziar MirDepartment of Conservative Dentistry, RWTH Aachen Hospital & Deutsche Gesellschaft fur laserzahnheilkunde (DGL), Aachen Klinkum, Pauwelsstr.30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRArak University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversitätsklinikum Aachen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ChitosanPhotodynamic therapyStreptococcus mutans

Identifiers

PMID33425290
PMCPMC7736932
OpenAlexW3119117220

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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