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CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MESOTHERAPY ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF FACIAL SCARS (RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL)

2024· article· en· W4396737342 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Dina omara, Ahmed Shaaban, Marwa Noureldin

Bibliographic record

VenueAlexandria Dental Journal · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFacial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineRandomized controlled trialScarsClinical trialDermatologySurgeryInternal medicine

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: If a tissue's integrity has been compromised, most body tissues can go through wound healing and leave behind scars when they recover. Mesotherapy is a non-invasive transdermal injection into the skin which stimulating fibroblasts for collagen and elastin biosynthesis and facilitating cell-to-cell communication that can be used to heal face scars. Objective: To improve the profile appearance and assessment the effectiveness of mesotherapy (microneedling) on the improvement of early postoperative oblique or vertical face surgical scars. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four patients with oblique or vertical forehead lacerations who underwent primary closure within five days. Randomly divided into two groups: Group 1 (n=12) was given mesotherapy (microneedling) and group 2 (n=12) was given no further treatment. At the 1, 3, and 6-month follow-up appointments, the Vancouver scar scale (VSS) scores and wound diameter will be assessed, along with clinical pictures and an assessment of the scar's pigmentation. Results: At the 1-month follow-up, both groups had significantly improved. After 3 months, follow-up, the mesotherapy (microneedling) group displayed more significant changes in VSS, wound breadth, and color difference scores than the control group. Patients from both groups relapsed to their original records during the follow-up at 6 months. Conclusion: Significant progress was achieved in the VSS and in the wound width with Mesotherapy (microneedling) group compared to the control group. All the major changes were observed in the 3 and 6-month visits.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.463
Teacher spread0.361 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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