Table 1. Search strategy using various keywords in multiple search databases.

MeSH: medical subject headings

Search database	Keywords and Boolean operators
PubMed	MeSH words “sticky bone”, “autologous fibrin glue”, “alveolar bone defect”, “alveolar ridge defect”, “ridge augmentation”, “intra bony defect” with Boolean operators “AND”, “OR”
Embase	Emtree keywords (“sticky bone”/exp OR “autologous fibrin glue”) AND (“alveolar bone defect”/exp OR “alveolar ridge defect”/exp OR “bony defect”/exp OR “intrabony defect”/exp OR “ridge augmentation”)
Web of Science	TS = (sticky bone OR bone graft with autologous fibrin glue) AND TS = (alveolar ridge defect OR alveolar bone defect OR bony defect OR intra bony defect OR ridge augmentation)
Google Scholar	(“sticky bone” OR “bone graft with autologous fibrin glue”) AND (“alveolar bone defect” OR “alveolar ridge defect” OR “bony defect” OR “intra bony defect” OR “ridge augmentation”)