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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Dental Caries Status of Children and Adolescents in West Africa-A Literature Review.

Wai-Lam Chan, Hei-Yu Wong, Rowenna Yue, Duangporn Duangthip, Phoebe Lam

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
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

5 authors.

Wai-Lam ChanFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Hei-Yu WongFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Rowenna YueFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Duangporn DuangthipCollege of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3819-3560
Phoebe LamFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

adolescentscaries experiencecaries prevalencechildchildrendental cariesdmftDMFTliterature revieworal health statisticsWest Africa

Identifiers

PMID40361739
PMCPMC12072052

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