Published Paper


Oral Alterations in Woman's Reproductive Life Cycle: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review

Dr. Navaneetha Cugati & Dr. Preetha Anand
Faculty of Dentistry, AIMST University, Semeling, Bedong, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
Page: 525-542
Published on: 2024 December

Abstract

The oral tissues exhibit various alterations during every stage of women’s reproductive life cycle due to the influence of fluctuating levels of sex hormones. Several confounding factors enhances these hormonal effects.This paper aims to systematically review the scientific literature retrospectively from three different databases namely PubMed, Ebscohost and Google Scholar between Jan 2013 to June 2024 and collect relevant evidence on the oral mainfestations during womens reproductive life. We performed PRISMA 2020 protocol and all the 41 included articles were subjected for Bibliometric and scientometric analyses to gather the evidence of oral changes, their etiopathogenesis  and there managerial care to sustain the oral health during women’s reproductive life cycle.

 

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