About the Authors
- Branca Heloisa Oliveira
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: branca.uerj@gmail.com
¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work
Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Izabel Monteiro D. Hyppolito
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Contributed equally to this work with: Izabel Monteiro D. Hyppolito, Zilson Malheiros, Bernal Stewart
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Zilson Malheiros
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Contributed equally to this work with: Izabel Monteiro D. Hyppolito, Zilson Malheiros, Bernal Stewart
Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Latin American Oral Health Association (LAOHA), São Paulo, Brazil, Colgate Palmolive Company, Global Technology Center, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America
- Bernal Stewart
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Contributed equally to this work with: Izabel Monteiro D. Hyppolito, Zilson Malheiros, Bernal Stewart
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Latin American Oral Health Association (LAOHA), São Paulo, Brazil, Colgate Palmolive Company, Global Technology Center, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America
- Claudio Mendes Pannuti
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work
Affiliation Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Competing Interests
BS and ZM receive salaries from the Colgate Palmolive Company, Piscataway, NJ, USA and are currently executive directors of Latin America Oral Health Association (LAOHA), SP, Brazil. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.