Table 3 Excluded publications after full-text evaluation and reasons for exclusion (n = 12)

Reason for exclusion: intervention

Qiao F, et al. 2020. A Validated Model to Predict Postoperative Symptom Severity After Mandibular Third Molar Removal. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2020;78 (6):893–901.

Windael S, et al. 2020. The Long-Term Effect of Smoking on 10 Years’ Survival and Success of Dental Implants: A Prospective Analysis of 453 Implants in a Non-University Setting. J Clin Med.9 (4).

Al Amri MD, et al. 2017. Comparison of peri-implant soft tissue parameters and crestal bone loss around immediately loaded and delayed loaded implants in smokers and non-smokers: 5-Year follow-up results. Journal of Periodontology. 2017;88 (1):3–9.

Nakayama Y et al. 2020. A multicenter prospective cohort study on the effect of smoking cessation on periodontal therapies in Japan. J Oral Sci.63 (1):114–8.

Holliday R et al. 2019. A feasibility study with embedded pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation in patients with periodontitis. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2019;5:74.

Sella A, et al. 2020. Evaluation of surgical treatment of oroantral fistulae in smokers versus non-smokers. Medicina (Lithuania). 2020;56 (6):1–13.

de Oliveira-Neto OB, et al. 2018. Risk of bias assessment of systematic reviews regarding dental implant placement in smokers: An umbrella systematic review. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 2018;120 (2):198–203.

Reason for exclusion: outcome

Nagao T, et al. 2021. A multicentre tobacco cessation intervention study in the dental setting in Japan. Int Dent J.

Reason for exclusion: study design

Needleman I, et al. 2006. Evaluation of tobacco use cessation (TUC) counselling in the dental office. Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry. 2006;4 (1):27–47.

Song F, et al. 2015. Identifying and recruiting smokers for preoperative smoking cessation--a systematic review of methods reported in published studies. Syst Rev.4:157.

Kanmaz M, et al. 2021.. Periodontal treatment outcomes in smokers: A narrative review. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 2021;19.

Zaki A, et al. 2018. Interventions in the preoperative clinic for long term smoking cessation: a quantitative systematic review. Can J Anaesth.55 (1):11–21.