About the Authors

Azadeh Babaei

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran

Afsaneh Pakdaman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pakdaman@sina.tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Research Centre for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahmad Reza Shamshiri

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Centre for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Pegah Khazaei

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Hessari

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Centre for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that there is no competing interests.