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ReviewDentistry journal2022

Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries Development.

Josie Shizhen Zhang, Chun-Hung Chu, Ollie Yiru Yu

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Review in Dentistry journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. The association between self-reported vaping and the human oral microbiome: a systematic review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  2. Postbiotics and Dental Caries: A Systematic Review.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2025
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  13. Molecular Insights into Oral Manifestations in Sjögren's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  15. Phytochemistry and Application of White Mustard (Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Josie Shizhen ZhangFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2600-3878
Chun-Hung ChuFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8167-0430
Ollie Yiru YuFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5310-5039

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dental caries remains the most prevalent oral disease worldwide. The development of dental caries is highly associated with the microbiota in the oral cavity. Microbiological research of dental caries has been conducted for over a century, with conventional culture-based methods and targeted molecular methods being used in order to identify the microorganisms related to dental caries. These methods' major limitation is that they can identify only part of the culturable microorganisms in the oral cavity. Introducing sequencing-based technology and bioinformatics analysis has boosted oral microbiome research and greatly expanded the understanding of complex oral microbiology. With the continuing revolution of molecular technologies and the accumulated sequence data of the oral microbiome, researchers have realized that microbial composition alone may be insufficient to uncover the relationship between caries and the microbiome. Most updated evidence has coupled metagenomics with transcriptomics and metabolomics techniques in order to comprehensively understand the microbial contribution to dental caries. Therefore, the objective of this article is to give an overview of the research of the oral microbiome and the development of dental caries. This article reviews the classical concepts of the microbiological aspect of dental caries and updates the knowledge of caries microbiology with the results of current studies on the oral microbiome. This paper also provides an update on the caries etiological theory, the microorganisms related to caries development, and the shifts in the microbiome in dental caries development.

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cariogenic bacteriadental cariesoral microbiologyoral microbiomeprecision dentistry

Identifiers

PMID36285994
PMCPMC9601200

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