About the Authors

Muath Abdullah Aldosari

Contributed equally to this work with: Muath Abdullah Aldosari, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Muath_Aldosari@HSDM.Harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mary Angela Tavares

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Senior Clinical Investigator, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programme Director, Dental Public Health, Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga Matta-Machado

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Associate Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu

Contributed equally to this work with: Muath Abdullah Aldosari, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Associate Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.