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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Management of Orofacial Neuropathic Pain-WALT Position Paper 2026.

Reem Hanna, Roberta Chow, Snehal Dalvi, Praveen R Arany, René-Jean Bensadoun, Alan Roger Santos-Silva, Jan Tunér, James D Carroll, Michael R Hamblin, Juanita Anders and 4 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 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

14 authors.

Reem HannaDepartment of Restorative Dental Sciences, Eastman Dental Institute, Medical Faculty, University College London, London WC1E 6DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2882-2156
Roberta ChowFaculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Brain and Mind Centre, 94 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2695-9290
Snehal DalviDepartment of Periodontology, Swargiya Dadasaheb Kalmegh Smruti Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur 440001, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6601-8551
Praveen R AranyDepartment of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6116-2340
René-Jean BensadounCentre de Haute Énergie, 10 Bd Pasteur, 06000 Nice, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1290-7497
Alan Roger Santos-SilvaOral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, 901 Limeira Avenue, Bairro Areão, Piracicaba, São Paolo P.O. Box 52, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2040-6617
Jan TunérPrivate Dental Practice, Sollentuna, 19162 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0009-0008-8144-2295
James D CarrollThor Photomedicine, Units 1, Anglo Office Park, White Lion Rd., Amersham HP7 9FB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9205-1061
Michael R HamblinLaser Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2092, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6431-4605
Juanita AndersDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Uniformed University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6696-4860
Shimon RochkindDepartment of Neurosurgery, Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction Division, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-9590-9764
Vladimir HeiskanenPrivate Dental Practice, Spider Med Hammasklinikka Manse, 3300 Tampere, Finland.
Judith E Raber-DurlacherDepartment of Oral Medicine, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and VU University, 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1500-8390
E-Liisa LaaksoMater Research Institute, University of Queensland, Level 2 Aubigny Place, Raymond Terrace, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4820-1090

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

glossopharyngeal neuralgiaidiopathic trigeminal neuralgialevel of evidenceneuropathic painoccipital neuralgiaPBMphotobiomodulationpost-herpetic neuralgiapost-traumatic trigeminal neuralgiaprimary burning mouth syndrome

Identifiers

PMID41682985
PMCPMC12898000

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