About the Authors
- Nizam Abdullah
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
- Farah Al Marzooq
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
- Suharni Mohamad
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: suharni@usm.my
Affiliation School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
- Normastura Abd Rahman
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
- Koippallil Gopalakrishnan Aghila Rani
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Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Hien Chi Ngo
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, UWA Dental School, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
- Lakshman Perera Samaranayake
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (SAR)
Competing Interests
Hien Chi Ngo is a co-developer of Riva-Star, SDI, Bayswater, Australia. Other authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.