Review Article
Effectiveness of Low-Level Laser Therapy in Reducing Orthodontic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Search strategy and results for PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCOhost.
| | Database | Search strategy | Results |
| | MEDLINE/PubMed | # 1: Low-level light therapy [Mesh] OR Low level laser therapy (Pubmed) OR Laser therapy (Pubmed) | 76,795 | | # 2: Analgesia [Mesh] OR Discomfort (Pubmed) | 76,088 | | # 3: (Pubmed) | 62,754 | | # 4: # 1 AND # 2 AND # 3 | 398 |
| | EMBASE | # 1: Low-level laser therapy | 16,792 | | # 2: Pain AND tooth pain | 6,559 | | # 3: Orthodontics | 60,423 | | # 4: controlled clinical trial | 597,953 | | # 5: # 1 AND # 2 AND # 3 AND # 4 | 15 |
| | Cochrane Library | # 1: (Low-level light therapy) | 366 | | # 2: (Pain) | 27,139 | | # 3: (Orthodontics OR Orthodontic appliances, OR Orthodontic Anchorage procedures) | 54 | | # 4: # 1 AND # 2 AND # 3 | 9 |
| | Web of Science | # 1. low-level laser therapy AND Clinical trial AND Pain AND Orthodontics | 8 |
| | Scopus | # l. low-level laser therapy AND Clinical trial AND Pain AND Orthodontics | 19 |
| | EBSCOhost | ## 1: Low-level laser therapy OR Laser therapy OR LLLT | 612 | | # 2: Pain | 13,209 | | # 3: Orthodontic treatment | 6,779 | | # 4: # 1 AND # 2 AND # 3 | 8 |
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