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ReviewDentistry journal2026

Addressing Research Gaps in Early Childhood Caries: A Comprehensive Review.

Anthony Yihong Cheng, Faith Miaomiao Zheng, Jieyi Chen, Chun Hung Chu

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Review in Dentistry journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Anthony Yihong ChengFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9266-5461
Faith Miaomiao ZhengFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.
Jieyi ChenHospital of Stomatology, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6505-198X
Chun Hung ChuFaculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8167-0430

Funding

Research Grant Council General Research Fund 17104123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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carieschildhoodchildrenoral healthpreschoolprevention

Identifiers

PMID42041649
PMCPMC13115031

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