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Trial reportInternational wound journal2024

Effectiveness of concentrated growth factor and laser therapy on wound healing, inferior alveolar nerve injury and periodontal bone defects post-mandibular impacted wisdom tooth extraction: A randomized clinical trial.

Zhu Lu, Huang Bingquan, Tan Jun, Ge Fei

RetractedOpen access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled TrialRetracted Publication
In one paragraph

Trial report in International wound journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Photobiomodulation After Third Molar Extraction for Pain Control.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  5. Expert consensus on the management of third molar health.International journal of oral science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zhu LuDepartment of Stomatology, South China Hospital Affiliated to Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Huang BingquanDepartment of Stomatology, Longgang Central Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Tan JunFoshan Stomatological Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong, China.
Ge FeiDepartment of Stomatology, South China Hospital Affiliated to Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9346-251X
Shenzhen University · CNFoshan Hospital of TCM · CNLonggang Central Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extraction of wisdom teeth with mandibular impact frequently results in complications including damage to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) and malformations of the bone. The objective of this research endeavour was to assess the efficacy of low-level laser therapy and concentrated growth factor (CGF) in facilitating nerve recovery and wound healing in such instances. A total of thirty-one patients (mean age 27.52 ± 5.79 years) who presented with IAN injury after extraction were randomly assigned to one of three groups: control group (which received oral mecobalamin), CGF group (which received CGF gel applied to the extraction sockets) and laser group (which received low-level lasers (808 nm, 30 mW, 10 J/cm

Indexed as

Low-Level Light TherapyTooth, ImpactedAdultHumansIntercellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMandibular NerveMolar, ThirdWound HealingYoung AdultIntercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteinsconcentrated growth factorsLM3 extractionsoft tissues woundswound healing

Identifiers

PMID38272792
PMCPMC10789919
OpenAlexW4390917206

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