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Review
. 2022 Jun 11;58(6):788.
doi: 10.3390/medicina58060788.

A Bibliometric Analysis (2010-2020) of the Dental Scientific Literature on Chemo-Mechanical Methods of Caries Removal Using Carisolv and BRIX3000

Dana Cristina Bratu  1 , Nicoleta Nikolajevic-Stoican  2 , George Popa  1 , Silvia Izabella Pop  3 , Bianca Dragoș  4 , Magda-Mihaela Luca  2
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A Bibliometric Analysis (2010-2020) of the Dental Scientific Literature on Chemo-Mechanical Methods of Caries Removal Using Carisolv and BRIX3000

Dana Cristina Bratu et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Reports in the literature have proposed and analyzed several minimally invasive techniques for caries removal in recent decades. In light of recent events surrounding the ongoing epidemiological context, concerns have been raised regarding the generation of aerosols during dental procedures. The aim of our research was to provide an overview of the scientific literature on the topic of chemo-mechanical caries removal (CMCR) methods, focusing on two products (Carisolv, BRIX3000), commercially available in Europe. A bibliometric analysis was used to investigate the scientific articles included in Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database, published from January 2010 to December 2020. We analyzed the co-occurrence of all keywords (Author Keywords and the KeyWords Plus section), co-authorship and co-citation, using the free software VOSviewer. Our bibliometric analysis revealed a worldwide interest in the subject of chemo-mechanical methods of caries removal, which has transcended the area of pediatric dentistry. The analyzed studies have been conducted mainly in high-income countries that have developed sanitary policies regarding prevention and early treatment of carious lesions as a health priority.

Keywords: BRIX3000; Carisolv; VOSviewer; authorship; citation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors had no commercial interest in any of the materials used in this study. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Map of the network of keywords for the CMCR methods (Carisolv and BRIX3000), based on the keyword co-occurrence. Source: own processing through VOSviewer.
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Network of scientific co-authorship, based on the number of documents per author. Source: own processing through VOSviewer.
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Scientific co-authorship by country. Source: own processing through VOSviewer.
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Scientific co-authorship by university. Source: own processing through VOSviewer.
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Network of co-citation of scientific journals. Source: own processing through VOSviewer.
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