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ArticleJournal of medicine and life2024

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy using a low-power 650 nm laser to inhibit oral

Roaa Osamah Adnan, Hussein Ali Jawad

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Article in Journal of medicine and life, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. MixedJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Roaa Osamah AdnanInstitute of Laser for Postgraduate Studies, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Hussein Ali JawadInstitute of Laser for Postgraduate Studies, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed the efficacy of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (PDT) using a 650 nm diode laser combined with methylene blue (MB) as a photosensitizer to inhibit the growth of

Indexed as

Candida albicansMethylene BluePhotochemotherapyPhotosensitizing AgentsAntifungal AgentsCandidiasis, OralHumansLasers, SemiconductorNystatinAntifungal AgentsMethylene BlueNystatinPhotosensitizing Agents650 nmantimicrobial agentsCandida albicansdiode laserendodontic failuremethylene blueoral cavityphotodynamic therapyphotosensitizer

Identifiers

PMID38737667
PMCPMC11080508

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