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A literature search was conducted on PubMed and Google Scholar for studies related to hormones and jawbone. Search strategies included the combinations (“name of hormone” + “dental term”) of the terms: “hormones”, “oxytocin”, “estrogen”, “adiponectin”, “parathyroid hormone”, “testosterone”, “insulin”, “angiotensin”, “cortisol”, and “erythropoietin”, combined with a dental term “jaw bone”, “alveolar bone”, “dental implant”, “jaw + bone regeneration, healing or repair”, “dentistry”, “periodontitis”, “dry socket”, “osteoporosis” or “alveolitis”. The papers were screened according to the inclusion criteria from January 1, 2000 to March 31, 2021 in English. Publications included reviews, book chapters and original research papers; in vitro studies, in vivo animal, or human studies, including clinical studies, and meta-analyses. |
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English language, publication date from January 1, 2000 to March 31, 2021.
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Publications included reviews, book chapters and original research papers; in vitro studies, in vivo animal, or human studies including clinical studies, and meta-analyses.
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Where no studies could be found on jawbone specifically, we included studies to elucidate the basic mechanisms and relevant medical studies, by removing “jaw” from the search words.
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Case studies, letters, viewpoints, editorials, publications providing irrelevant or unusable data, lack of full text availability, and non-English language articles were excluded.
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