Efficacy of low-level laser therapy in pain relief during orthodontic treatment: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Cintia Ronchi Lemos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cintia Ronchi Lemos, Daniela Bianchini Orlandi, Anna Carolina Pereira Thimoteo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Department of Dentistry, Florianópolis, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1982-6929

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• Daniela Bianchini Orlandi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cintia Ronchi Lemos, Daniela Bianchini Orlandi, Anna Carolina Pereira Thimoteo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Department of Dentistry, Florianópolis, Brazil

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• Anna Carolina Pereira Thimoteo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cintia Ronchi Lemos, Daniela Bianchini Orlandi, Anna Carolina Pereira Thimoteo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Department of Dentistry, Florianópolis, Brazil

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• Helena Polmann ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Department of Dentistry, Florianópolis, Brazil

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• Patrícia Pauletto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: patricia.pauletto@udla.edu.ec

  Current address: School of Dentistry, Universidad De Las Americas (UDLA), Cristóbal Colón Avenue, E9-241 Quito, Ecuador

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, Universidad De Las Americas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1762-7059

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• Cristine Miron Stefani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, University of Brasília (UnB), School of Health Sciences, Brasília, Brazil

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• Eliete Neves Silva Guerra ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of Brasília (UnB), School of Health Sciences, Brasília, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-1550

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• Carlos Flores-Mir ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Mike Petryk School of Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Graziela De Luca Canto

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HP,PP,CMS, ENSG, CFM and GDLG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Brazilian Centre for Evidence-Based Research (COBE), Brazil, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Department of Dentistry, Florianópolis, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Evidence-Based Health, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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