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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy and Bracket Systems on Root Resorption during Orthodontic Treatment: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Fazal Shahid, Shifat A Nowrin, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Mohd Fadhli Khamis, Adam Husein, Norma Ab Rahman

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 6 countries.

Fazal ShahidOrthodontic Department, Shifa College of Dentistry, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Shifat A NowrinOrthodontic Department, Shifa College of Dentistry, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Mohammad Khursheed AlamOrthodontics, Preventive Dentistry Department, College of Dentistry, Jouf University, Sakaka 72345, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7131-1752
Mohd Fadhli KhamisForensic Dentistry, School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Adam HuseinDepartment of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0001-5962-6110
Norma Ab RahmanOrthodontic Unit, School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-9299-8554
Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University · PKUniversiti Sains Malaysia · MYHospital Universiti Sains Malaysia · MYJouf University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the outcomes of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) with the conventional bracket (CB) and self-ligating (SL) bracket systems on root resorption (RR) during orthodontic treatment. A total of 32 patients were included in this randomized clinical trial. All the patients were randomly divided into four individual groups (SLL: self-ligating laser, CBL: conventional bracket laser, SLNL: self-ligating non-laser, CBNL: conventional bracket non-laser). RR was measured from the cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) radiographs which were taken at two stages of the orthodontic treatment: pre-treatment (T1) and after leveling and alignment stage (T2). Wilcoxon rank test for the comparison was conducted to compare the RR at T1 and T2 stages within each group and showed a significant difference (

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bracket systemslaser therapyroot resorption

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PMID36981521
PMCPMC10048506
OpenAlexW4327596688

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