The Use of Essential Oils and Their Isolated Compounds for the Treatment of Oral Candidiasis: A Literature Review

Table 1

Search strategy and bibliographic databases used to retrieve the articles for this systematic review.

Primary bibliographic sources	Search strategy (descriptors and combinations with Boolean operators)
SciVerse Scopus (since 1995)	(i) (Essential oil AND oral candidiasis)
	(ii) (Oils, volatile, OR essential oil) AND (oral candidiasis)
	(iii) (Oils, volatile, OR essential oil) AND (denture stomatitis)
Web of Science (since 1990)	Filters; article or review and language
	(i) (Essential oil AND oral candidiasis)
	(ii) (Oils, volatile, OR essential oil) AND (oral candidiasis)
	(iii) (Oils, volatile OR essential oil) AND (denture stomatitis)
Medline via Pubmed (since 1966)	(i) (Essential oil AND oral candidiasis)
	(ii) (Oils, volatile OR essential oil) AND (oral candidiasis)
	(iii) (Oils, volatile OR essential oil) AND (denture stomatitis)
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) (since 1998), LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health sciences Literature) (since 1982), and Cochrane Library	(i) (Essential oil AND oral candidiasis)
	(ii) (Oils, volatile OR essential oil) AND (oral candidiasis)
	(iii) (Oils, volatile OR essential oil) AND (denture stomatitis)
	(iv) (Aceite esencial y candidiasis oral)
	(v) (EO e candidíase oral)
	(vi) (EO e estomatite protética)
Google Scholar	(i) Manual searches according to the reference lists of the articles

Search strategy and bibliographic databases and keywords.