Adjunctive use of

Wei-Ju Chen, Lavanya Ajay Sharma, Peng Shao, Tia Griffith, Robert Love, Rohit Jain, John Hale, Ajay Sharma

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Article in 3 Biotech, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

Current Understanding of Probiotic Strains and Immune Function: From Gut Microbiota to Systemic Immunity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
Review
Targeting Bacterial Infections in Periodontal Disease: From Conventional Antibiotics to Next-Generation Therapeutics.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Review
Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndromes and the gut-oral-brain axis: a narrative review of emerging microbiome-immune interactions and therapeutic perspectives.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Erratum issued
Correction: Adjunctive use of2026

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Wei-Ju ChenSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.

Lavanya Ajay SharmaSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.

Peng ShaoSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4908-1019

Tia GriffithSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.

Robert LoveSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.

Rohit JainBLIS Technologies, PO Box 2208, South Dunedin, Dunedin, 9044 New Zealand.

John HaleBLIS Technologies, PO Box 2208, South Dunedin, Dunedin, 9044 New Zealand.

Ajay SharmaSchool of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial aimed to evaluate the adjunctive use of Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-025-04363-w.

Indexed as

Bleeding on probingPeriodontal pathogensPeriodontitisPlaque indexPocket probing depthStreptococcus salivarius M18 probiotic

Identifiers

PMID40443548

DOI10.1007/s13205-025-04363-w

PMCPMC12119401

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