Current Status and Trends in Research on Caries Diagnosis: A Bibliometric Analysis

Melo, María; Sanz, José Luis Graupera; Forner, Leopoldo; Rodríguez‐Lozano, Francisco Javier; Guerrero‐Gironés, Julia

doi:10.3390/ijerph19095011

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“…All (783, 100%) of these documents were written in English, which favored global communications [12] . A large proportion (596, 76.12%) of them were published in open access (OA) mode, which demonstrated a relatively high level in a research field compared to previous studies [13-15] . The OA mode made it free to download and read the published COVID-19-related works, increasing the accessibility and visibility [16] , which might be especially beneficial to developing regions.…”

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Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Zhang¹,

Zhong²,

Luo³

et al. 2023

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has created enormous medical and economic burdens on human society. However, the co-existence of COVID-19 and diseases in tropical regions is not taken seriously. To improve the understanding of the current status and trends on crosstalk of COVID-19 and tropical diseases, this paper provided an analysis, from a bibliometric perspective, of the COVID-19-related publications in ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals. Methods: We used Clarivate Analytics and VOSviewer to analyze 783 publications in seven ″ Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals. Document overview, basic bibliometric characteristics, citation performance, co-authorship, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence of keywords and terms were summarized in this article. Results: Document overview revealed that 76.12% of the related publications were published in open access mode, and basic bibliometric characteristics indicated that the year 2021 was the peak of the number of publications, the documents in the seven journals were unevenly distributed, and ″ article″ was the main publication type. The citation performance analysis elucidated that the documents of interest were frequently cited. The co-authorship analysis showed cooperation networks on the level of region, organization and author. General knowledge of COVID-19 was the overlap of co-citation and bibliographic coupling behavior. Finally, the co-occurrence of keywords and terms revealed the current and emerging hotspots. Conclusions: The main current research focuses in ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals are the clinical features of COVID-19 patients, and the emerging trends are the hesitancy in making vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and the circumstance where COVID-19 coexisted with tropical diseases. In summary, this bibliometric analysis of COVID-19-related studies in seven ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals highlights the current research focuses of this field to inspire future studies.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Zhang¹,

Zhong²,

Luo³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Early recognition and detection of the carious lesions and caries disease process is highly important from the point of view of medical intervention, to avoid progression into deeper parts of enamel (before cavitation) and healed by remineralization by applying a dental treatment with fluorinated products. Therefore, a correct and precise diagnosis of the carious lesion is of extreme importance in daily dental practice, which is increasingly focused on performing evidence-based, noninvasive, and painless modalities, or minimally invasive intervention treatments, aiming to reduce the removal of dental tissues whenever possible, as well as to promote and maintain the overall dental health [30,31].…”

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“…Still, none of them have reached the maximal sensitivity and/or specificity, so further research is required to find a method that meets all the needs of dental care professionals. Despite all research studies dedicated to the development of improved methods for the early detection of dental carious lesions, in clinical practice, caries detection is still mostly limited to conventional visual and visual-tactile tools, such as sharp explorers and dental radiographs [11,31]. Conventional clinical diagnostic methods that are frequently used for detecting cavitated lesions are characterized by insufficient sensitivity and specificity for the early detection of carious lesions [3].…”

Section: Early Recognition Of Carious Lesionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conventional clinical diagnostic methods that are frequently used for detecting cavitated lesions are characterized by insufficient sensitivity and specificity for the early detection of carious lesions [3]. For instance, bitewing radiographs are still considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of interproximal caries [30,31]. Dental radiographs are also useful in detecting larger, advanced dental caries, but limited image resolution and poor radiographic contrast of early carious lesions confer to radiographs reduced sensitivity for detecting early-stage dental caries [11][12][13].…”

Section: Early Recognition Of Carious Lesionsmentioning

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Overall Review on Recent Applications of Raman Spectroscopy Technique in Dentistry

Otel

2023

QuBS

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The present paper reviews the applications of Raman spectroscopy in dentistry in the past two decades. This technique is considered a highly promising optical modality, widely used for the chemical identification and characterization of molecular structures, providing detailed information on the structural arrangement, crystal orientations, phase, and polymorphism, molecular interactions and effects of bonding, chemical surrounding environment, and stress on samples. Raman spectroscopy has been appropriate to investigate both organic and inorganic components of dental tissues since it provides accurate and precise spectral information on present minerals through the observation of the characteristic energies of their vibrational modes. This method is becoming progressively important in biomedical research, especially for non-invasiveness, non-destructiveness, high biochemical specificity, low water sensitivity, simplicity in analyzing spectral parameters, near-infrared region capability, and in vivo remote potential by means of fiber-optics. This paper will address the application of Raman spectroscopy in different fields of dentistry, found to be the most relevant and prevalent: early recognition of carious lesions; bleaching products performance; demineralizing effect from low-pH foods and acidic beverages; and efficiency of remineralization agents. Additionally, this review includes information on fiber-optic remote probe measurements. All described studies concern caries detection, enamel characterization, and assessment indicating how and to what extent Raman spectroscopy can be applied as a complementary diagnostic method.

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“…Early diagnosis of caries is a challenge for clinical dentists; although different diagnostic methods exist, none have been found to have the highest sensitivity or specificity [4], a widely accepted method is the visual-tactile inspection proposed by the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) [4]. However, this method alone has proven to be insufficient to detect the extent of caries or lesions in the interproximal area [5], so it must be accompanied by other methods such as periapical radiography, transillumination, and fluorescence [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Degree of Concordance Between Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (Cbct) And 2d Digital Radiography System Used for Caries Diagnosis: An Observational Study

Pulido,

Arango,

Adriana

et al. 2023

TODENTJ

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Background: Caries is a disease with a high prevalence, which may be due to the lack of adequate methods for its early diagnosis, becomes difficult to detect initial caries lesions in posterior teeth due to the occlusal anatomy of these and because on many occasions they start in the interproximal zone below the contact areas. Different techniques have been used for the diagnosis of caries, such as visual-tactile inspection, radiography, tomography, and transillumination, but none of them seems to have complete sensitivity or specificity. Aim: This study aims to establish the degree of agreement between radiographic diagnosis with 2D intraoral digital radiography in relation to cone beam computed tomography in extracted carious and healthy posterior teeth, practicing the CariesCare International ™ practical guide as a reference. Materials and Methods: A total number of 117 teeth with or without carious lesions were selected. Digital images of all teeth were obtained from 2D digital radiographs (instrumentarium ™ films) obtained with Kavo focus equipment and CBCT scanner I-CAT ™ model 1719, ISI (imaging science international), Pennsylvania (blue sky plan 4 software). Observers evaluated the images for the detection of carious lesions. The sensitivity and specificity ratio between the systems was determined using the area under the curve statistical tool ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic). For the statistical analysis, the statistical program STATA IC/16 was used, in which the calculation of absolute and relative frequencies for each category of CariesCare international in CBCT and radiography was performed, in addition to the Friedman and post-hoc Wilcoxon test by pairs; the distribution according to the classification of CariesCare international was contrasted between the CBCT slices. The calculation of weighted Kappa and dichotomous Kappa and the calculation of validity (sensitivity and specificity) and prediction (predictive values and predictive ratios) were performed. The distribution according to CariesCare international classification was contrasted between the CBCT slices. Results: The results of the present study confirm that diagnosis of caries with the 2D digital radiographic method, initial caries lesions tend to go undetected relative to CBCT. Conclusion: 2D digital radiographs showed low sensitivity for caries detection and high specificity relative to CBCT for caries lesions in vitro. Diagnosis with 2D digital Rx is considered non-discriminative in identifying initial caries lesions.

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Current Status and Trends in Research on Caries Diagnosis: A Bibliometric Analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 59 publications

Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Overall Review on Recent Applications of Raman Spectroscopy Technique in Dentistry

Degree of Concordance Between Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (Cbct) And 2d Digital Radiography System Used for Caries Diagnosis: An Observational Study

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