Is It Possible to Achieve Favorable Accelerated Dental Changes with No Periodontal Complications When Retracting Upper Anterior Teeth Assisted by Flapless Corticotomy Compared to Traditional Corticotomy? A Two-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial.

Hanin Nizar Khlef, Mohammad Younis Hajeer

Open access · goldAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial

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Trial report in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hanin Nizar KhlefDepartment of Orthodontics, University of Damascus Dental School, Damascus, Syria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7784-8419

Mohammad Younis HajeerDepartment of Orthodontics, University of Damascus Dental School, Damascus, Syria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0640-1297

Damascus University · SY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this trial was to evaluate the dental changes, periodontal health, and tooth vitality in mini-screw-supported Results: The Conclusions: Both traditional and flapless corticotomy techniques resulted in clinically similar rates of the

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AdolescentAdultBone ScrewsFemaleHumansMaleMalocclusion, Angle Class IITherapeuticsTooth ExtractionYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID35295761

DOI10.1155/2022/4261248

PMCPMC8920673

OpenAlexW4221005431

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