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ReviewBritish dental journal2026

Oral health screening for sport.

Julie Gallagher, Ian Needleman, Paul Ashley, Peter Fine

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Review in British dental journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper 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.

Julie GallagherUniversity College London, Eastman Dental Institute, Centre for Oral Health and Performance, Bloomsbury Campus, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, United Kingdom. julie.gallagher@ucl.ac.uk.
Ian NeedlemanUniversity College London, Eastman Dental Institute, Centre for Oral Health and Performance, Bloomsbury Campus, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, United Kingdom.
Paul AshleyUniversity College London, Eastman Dental Institute, Centre for Oral Health and Performance, Bloomsbury Campus, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, United Kingdom.
Peter FineUniversity College London, Eastman Dental Institute, Centre for Oral Health and Performance, Bloomsbury Campus, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral health is an essential component of general health and wellbeing, but there are many potential challenges to the oral health of athletes, including nutrition and hydration, exercise-induced immune suppression, lack of awareness, negative health behaviours and lack of prioritisation. Oral diseases should be preventable, and there are simple interventions that have good evidence of efficacy. Screening that allows early recognition of disease is well-established in healthcare as the first step in prevention of disease and promotion of positive health behaviours. This paper aims to provide an overview of the oral health problems that can be screened for in sport.

Indexed as

Mass ScreeningMouth DiseasesOral HealthSportsHumans

Identifiers

PMID41760757
PMCPMC12948672

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