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ReviewFrontiers in oral health2021

The Path to an Evidence-Based Treatment Protocol for Extraoral Photobiomodulation Therapy for the Prevention of Oral Mucositis.

Ather Adnan, Anna N Yaroslavsky, James D Carroll, Wayne Selting, Amy F Juliano, Wendy B London, Stephen T Sonis, Christine N Duncan, Nathaniel S Treister

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Review in Frontiers in oral health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06071637 (Low Power Laser Therapy As Prevention Of Oral Mucositis And Oropharyngeal Pain In Patients Undergoing Allogenetic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT06071637 phase3recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Low Power Laser Therapy As Prevention Of Oral Mucositis And Oropharyngeal Pain In Patients Undergoing Allogenetic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstituto Nacional de Cancer, BrazilRan2023 to 2027Enrolled84ConditionsHematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Low-Level Light Therapy, StomatitisArmsDouble low-power laser therapy simultaneous applicated
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Acceptance and perceived efficacy of intraoral versus extraoral photobiomodulation for oral mucositis prevention in pediatric patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Ather AdnanTexas A&M University Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
Anna N YaroslavskyAdvanced Biophotonics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States.
James D CarrollTHOR Photomedicine, Chesham, United Kingdom.
Wayne SeltingDepartment of Surgical Science and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Amy F JulianoDepartment of Radiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Wendy B LondonDepartment of Pediatrics, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Stephen T SonisDepartment of Surgery, Divisions of Oral Medicine and Dentistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States.
Christine N DuncanDepartment of Pediatrics, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Nathaniel S TreisterDepartment of Surgery, Divisions of Oral Medicine and Dentistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral mucositis is a painful complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for which photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) is a safe and effective intervention. Extraoral delivery of PBMT has clinical advantages over intraoral delivery but requires additional dosimetric considerations due to the external tissue layers through which the light must propagate before reaching the oral mucosa. Additionally, to date there has been no dose modeling study, a task essential to developing a justified treatment protocol. We review here some of the complexities surrounding extraoral photobiomodulation therapy and offer that may help guide researchers toward an evidence-based treatment protocol for the prevention of oral mucositis.

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hematopoietic stem cell transplantlow level light therapymonte carlooral mucositisphotobiomodulation therapy

Identifiers

PMID35048034
PMCPMC8757848

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