About the Authors

Prathibha Prasad

Contributed equally to this work with: Prathibha Prasad, Mohamed Jaber

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

dentistrybyprats@gmail.com

Affiliations Basic Dental Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Center of Medical and Bio-allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Mohamed Jaber

Contributed equally to this work with: Prathibha Prasad, Mohamed Jaber

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Center of Medical and Bio-allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Dinesh Y.

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Saveetha University, Thandalam, India

Prathibha Ramani

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Saveetha University, Thandalam, India

Abdulrahman Arafat

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Abdalla Khairy

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

Affiliation College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.