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Among 91 noma patients receiving physiotherapy during initial hospitalization, mean mouth opening increased from 17.6 mm at admission to 24.5 mm at discharge, a mean difference of 6.9 mm (95% CI 5.4 to 8.3; paired t = 9.4), matching the paper to the reported precision in direction, magnitude and significance. The one discrepancy is the reported degrees of freedom (paper: 91; correct for 91 pairs: 90), a reporting error that does not affect the result. Secondary analyses (age-group comparison, multivariable regression) reproduce only after excluding one 40-year-old patient, an exclusion the paper does not report; these are outside the scope of the claim tested here. https://w3id.org/sciencelive/np/RAFwdAIziXVtyI8btnQNS8PPel-gIxWAXyYiYMS5kS3sU/noma-physio-mouth-opening-reproduction https://w3id.org/sciencelive/o/terms/hasConfidenceLevel https://w3id.org/sciencelive/o/terms/HighConfidence https://w3id.org/sciencelive/np/RAFwdAIziXVtyI8btnQNS8PPel-gIxWAXyYiYMS5kS3sU/noma-physio-mouth-opening-reproduction https://w3id.org/sciencelive/o/terms/hasEvidenceDescription Paired t-test, n = 91: admission mean 17.637 mm, discharge mean 24.516 mm, mean difference 6.879 mm (95% CI 5.429 to 8.329), t = 9.424, df = 90, p = 4.5e-15 (paper: 6.9 mm, 95% CI 5.4 to 8.3, t = 9.4, df = 91, p < 0.001; abstract p < 0.0001 — both true). Patients below 20 mm mouth opening: 47/91 (52%) at admission, 23/91 (25%) at discharge, matching the paper; 25/91 (27%) moved from below 20 mm to 20 mm or above, matching the paper's 27%, with one patient moving the other way (net change 26.4 percentage points). Across all 120 statistics compared in results/summary.csv: 79 match, 9 match if the paper truncated rather than rounded, 32 mismatch; mismatches are confined to the age-dependent analyses (explained by the unreported exclusion of one adult) and to reporting errors (df, Table 1 percentage denominator of 92 instead of 91, "n = 20" in Table 2). https://w3id.org/sciencelive/np/RAFwdAIziXVtyI8btnQNS8PPel-gIxWAXyYiYMS5kS3sU/noma-physio-mouth-opening-reproduction https://w3id.org/sciencelive/o/terms/hasLimitationsDescription This is a computational reproduction on the same data, not an independent replication: it confirms the reported numbers follow from the published dataset, not that they generalise. The study has no comparison group without physiotherapy, so the admission-to-discharge change cannot be attributed causally to physiotherapy; natural recovery, other treatment and the length of hospitalization are not separated from it. The original analysis was run in R without published code; this reproduction uses Python (scipy, statsmodels), so variable recodings (primary caregiver, defect site) were inferred as the only mappings reproducing Table 1. The dataset contains data-quality irregularities that were logged but not corrected: five patients with a 0-day length of stay, four with more physiotherapy sessions than hospital days, missing values (sequestrectomy 10, caregiver 11), and one adult in a paediatric cohort. 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