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Table 2 Search String for Medline

From: The impact of COVID-19 on individual oral health: a scoping review

Search ID#

Search Terms

Results

S1

Oral Health (MeSH)

18,283

S2

Oral hygiene (MeSH)

13,369

S3

Dental care (MeSH)

22,022

S4

(oral ADJ1 (health OR hygiene OR care))

53,432

S5

Dental health services (MeSH) OR Dental caries (MeSH)

50,988

S6

(dental ADJ1 (health OR hygiene OR care OR caries* OR service* OR practice* OR procedure*))

117,059

S7

Dentists (MeSH)

18,712

S8

Dentist*

134,295

S9

1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5 OR 6 OR 7 OR 8

240,711

S10

COVID-19 (MeSH)

112,182

S11

“covid 19”

179,877

S12

Coronavirus

107,756

S13

“sars cov 2”

117,101

S14

“2019 ncov”

1848

S15

“Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”

18,607

S16

10 OR 11 OR 12 OR 13 OR 14 OR 15

200,965

S17

9 AND 16

1325

S18

Limit 17 to English language

1294

  1. The * refers to the truncation used in the MEDLINE search. The * finds all alternate endings to a word