Evaluation of the effects of

Firoozeh Nilchian, Mohammadreza Esrafili, Nafiseh Hosseini

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Article in Dental research journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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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.

Firoozeh NilchianDepartment of Oral Public Health, Dental Materials Research Center, Dental Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Mohammadreza EsrafiliStudent Research Committee, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Nafiseh HosseiniDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Various methods, including the use of probiotics, have been suggested to prevent caries. Caries, which is mainly caused by Materials and Methods: In this double-blind randomized clinical trial, 40 students of medicine and pharmacy were randomly allocated to two equal groups of intervention and control using random allocation software. The intervention group used a probiotic pill containing Results: The mean number of Conclusion: The mean number of

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Clinical trialdental cariesprobioticsStreptococcus mutansStreptococcus salivarius

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PMID39188385

PMCPMC11346607

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