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ArticleInternational journal of dentistry2025

Insights Into the Mechanism of Action of Chlorhexidine on

Karen Mejía, Adriana-Patricia Rodríguez-Hernández, Miryam Martínez-Hernández

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Article in International journal of dentistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Biomaterial investigations in dentistry · 2026
    Article
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  3. Impact of LiveMicroorganisms · 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

3 authors.

Karen MejíaBioInterphases Laboratory, Division of Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Dentistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0138-2085
Adriana-Patricia Rodríguez-HernándezLaboratory of Molecular Genetics, Division of Graduate Studies and Research, School of Dentistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9473-1749
Miryam Martínez-HernándezBioInterphases Laboratory, Division of Graduate Studies and Research, School of Dentistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1589-8605

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlorhexidine (CHX) remains the most effective antiseptic in periodontal therapy, multiple reports have identified ultrastructural antibacterial effects of CHX on oral bacteria, however, little is known about its molecular mechanism of action on

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oral antisepticperiodontal bacteriavirulence factors

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PMID40223868
PMCPMC11986949

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