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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Fluoride in Dental Caries Prevention and Treatment: Mechanisms, Clinical Evidence, and Public Health Perspectives.

Chin-Hsuan Yeh, Yung-Li Wang, Thi Thuy Tien Vo, Yi-Ching Lee, I-Ta Lee

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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 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing 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

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

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  3. Dental Caries in Older Adults: A Narrative Review for Non-Dental Providers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  14. Biofilm-targeted liposomal curcumin delivery system for anti-caries therapy.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  16. Physical and Functional Properties of Toothpaste Tablets.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

5 authors.

Chin-Hsuan YehDivision of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Dentistry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 110301, Taiwan.
Yung-Li WangSchool of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110301, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0633-8913
Thi Thuy Tien VoFaculty of Dentistry, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam.
Yi-Ching LeeCenter for General Education, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chiayi 61363, Taiwan.
I-Ta LeeSchool of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110301, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-8451-0280

Funding

The College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan TMUCOM202502The National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan NSTC 114-2813-C-038-059-BThe National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan NSTC 114-2813-C-038-060-B
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

clinical efficacy and safetydental caries preventionfluoride interventionspublic health and cultural perspectivesremineralization and demineralization

Identifiers

PMID40941599
PMCPMC12427920

What Socratic holds

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