About the Authors

Branca Heloisa Oliveira

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

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

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

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

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

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.