About the Authors

Mojtaba Bayani

Contributed equally to this work with: Mojtaba Bayani, MohammadTaha Heidari

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

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran

MohammadTaha Heidari

Contributed equally to this work with: Mojtaba Bayani, MohammadTaha Heidari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Student Research Committee, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran

Amir Almasi-Hashiani

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

Amiralmasi2007@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.