About the Authors

Mohammed Nadeem Bijle

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Nadeem Bijle, Manikandan Ekambaram

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

Affiliation Paediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Manikandan Ekambaram

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Nadeem Bijle, Manikandan Ekambaram

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Edward C. M. Lo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Cynthia Kar Yung Yiu

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ckyyiu@hku.hk

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Paediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.