About the Authors

Arwa Banjar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

aazbangar1@kau.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Rusha Alyafi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ali AlGhamdi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Assaggaf

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ammar Almarghlani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Shaymaa Hassan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Brian Mealey

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

all authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.