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ReviewBioMed research international2022

Recent Evidence of Tea Tree Oil Effectiveness in Blepharitis Treatment.

Luigi Capasso, Giulia Abbinante, Alessia Coppola, Giulio Salerno, Maddalena De Bernardo

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Review in BioMed research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Plant-Based Care and Therapy in Ophthalmology.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  4. Modern Technologies inSovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2025
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  6. Phthiriasis palpebrarum effectively treated with tea tree oil.American journal of clinical and experimental immunology · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Luigi CapassoUOC Oculistica, Ospedale del Mare ASL Napoli 1 Centro, Napoli, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-6005
Giulia AbbinanteDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2473-3164
Alessia CoppolaDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4737-5232
Giulio SalernoDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4725-1598
Maddalena De BernardoDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4566-0064
University of Salerno · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of our study is to see how beneficial is tea tree oil (TTO) for treating chronic blepharitis topically, with a focus on the Demodex mite. To discover all possibly relevant published papers, an accurate Pubmed database search analysis of the current literature was undertaken from 2012 to December 2021. Fourteen papers dealing with the use of TTO to treat chronic blepharitis have been found. The effectiveness of TTO treatment was tested in vitro by 4 authors and in vivo by 10 authors. All studied confirmed efficacy of TTO treatment, even cyclic, on Demodex mite blepharitis. TTO can be used for lid scrubs, facial cleanser, eyelid patch, eyelid gel, eyelash shampoo or, more commonly, as TTO impregnated eyelid wipes. The scientific evidence of TTO for chronic blepharitis treatment gives a lot of confidence for the progress that this treatment may have in the future clinical practice.

Indexed as

BlepharitisEye Infections, ParasiticEyelashesMite InfestationsMitesTea Tree OilAnimalsHumansTea Tree Oil

Identifiers

PMID35941981
PMCPMC9356889
OpenAlexW4288871689

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Registered trials

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