Cauane Blumenberg

The paper entitled “Effectiveness of anesthetic solutions for pain control in lower third molar extraction surgeries: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials with network meta-analysis” was published today in the Clinical Oral Investigations journal.

This paper consists of a systematic review of the literature that selected studies interested on assessing the effectiveness of different anesthetic solutions. In order to compare the different solutions, we performed a network meta-analysis (also known as multiple treatment comparison).

Apar from being published in Clinical Oral Investigations journal, this same work received two honorable mentions in national congresses in which it was presented. The paper can be accessed here.

Accepting the invitation from the Editor-in-chief of the Bioscience Journal, Cauane Blumenberg is now one of the Associate Editors for Health Sciences. The Bioscience Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed indexed journal, and is organized by the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. All articles are published electronically and are open access.

Don’t hesitate to submit your article to the Bioscience Journal at: http://www.biosciencejournal.ufu.br/

Several methods to estimate dental age using radiographs have been developed worldwide. However, most of these methods were designed with a focus on children from other countries (especially from high-income countries). Studies applying these methods to Brazilian children are usually found in the literature, but without knowledge if they were adequate to be applied to Brazilian children or not.

A recently published systematic review and meta-analysis in the Dentomaxillofacial Radiology tried to fill this gap in the literature. The study compared the estimated age to the chronological age, showing that most age estimation methods achieved optimal performance in Brazilian children. The most suitable method was the one proposed by Willem’s.

The complete article is available here.