“…Four F I G U R E 3 Transcrestal sinus lift procedure duplicate articles were excluded. Upon review of the full texts of these publications, studies performed in vivo that did not involve the use of HA in the oral cavity were excluded, including experimental studies that targeted the calvaria (Agrali et al, 2018;Diker, Gulsever, Koroglu, Yilmaz Akcay, & Oguz, 2018;de Brito Bezerra et al, 2012;Kim et al, 2007;Martínez-Sanz et al, 2011;Patterson et al, 2010;Pröhl et al, 2021;Silva et al, 2017;Townsend et al, 2020), the femur (Ahmed, Awartani, Niazy, Jansen, & Alghamdi, 2020;Nguyen & Lee, 2014;Taz et al, 2019), and the tibia (Aslan, Simsek, & Dayi, 2006). Two publications that focused on the use of HA for periodontal regeneration were also excluded.…”