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ArticleToxins2026

Comment on Kang et al. The Effective Way of Botulinum Toxin Injection to Reduce Bite Force: Preliminary Study.

Elif Tarihci Cakmak, Fatma Merih Akpinar, Ekin Ilke Sen, Nalan Capan

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elif Tarihci CakmakDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34093, Türkiye.
Fatma Merih AkpinarDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34093, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0001-8072-5201
Ekin Ilke SenDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34093, Türkiye.
Nalan CapanDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34093, Türkiye.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We read with great interest and some concerns the article by Kang and colleagues [...].

Indexed as

Botulinum ToxinsAnimalsHumansBotulinum Toxins

Identifiers

PMID42043029
PMCPMC13120192

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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