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| children AND electric toothbrush AND manual toothbrush AND plaque removal |
The search retrieves a number of relevant article records, but probably not everything on the topic.
Evaluate Results Change the display of the results set to Citation to find more search words to use to improve the search. Pay most attention to the article records that closely address your research topic.
MeSH Terms that appear after the abstract can be very helpful for creating a comprehensive search related to your topic. Here are key MeSH Terms found in the most relevant results that are a bit different from the words you used:
| Child Toothbrushing Dental Plaque Prevention & control |
Note that there is no MeSH Term that relates specifically to manual or electric toothbrushes. The words used to describe electric and manual toothbrushes in the titles and abstracts are varied. Be sure to include synonyms such as:
| Powered Conventional |
Also, think about alternate forms of words such as:
| Power Toothbrushes Remove |
Revise Search After your gather new words, enter a new search.
Group synonyms with OR enclosed with parentheses.
Use AND to combine the different groups of words.
| (child OR children) AND (electric OR power OR powered) AND (manual OR conventional) AND (toothbrush OR toothbrushes OR toothbrushing) AND dental plaque AND (removal OR remove OR prevention OR control) |
Review the results of the revised search. Remember, searching is an iterative process and you may need to do more than one revision.
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