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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2025

Enhancing Endodontic Outcomes with the Synergistic Microbicidal and Activated Root-Cleansing Technique (SMART): A Novel Approach to Root Canal Irrigation.

Max Foroughi, Sara Abolmaali, Hamid Abedi, Theodore Ravenel

Abstract read
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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Max ForoughiDepartment of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5972-3065
Sara AbolmaaliDepartment of Endodontics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Hamid AbediDepartment of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Loma Linda, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA.
Theodore RavenelDepartment of Biomedical & Community Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.

Funding

Cornerstone Specialty Products, LLC. CSP-24510021-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Root Canal IrrigantsRoot Canal PreparationRoot Canal TherapyDental Pulp CavityDisinfectionEdetic AcidEnterococcus faecalisHumansMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningSmear LayerSodium HypochloriteEdetic AcidRoot Canal IrrigantsSodium Hypochloritebacterial eradicationdentin integritydiode laserendodontic irrigationroot canal disinfectionsmear layer removalsodium hypochlorite

Identifiers

PMID40428832
PMCPMC12113141

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