About the Authors

Sheela B. Abraham

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

sabraham@sharjah.ac.ae

Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Farah Al-Marzooq

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Lakshman Samaranayake

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

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

Affiliations Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Rifat Akram Hamoudi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ASPIRE Precision Medicine Research Institute Abu Dhabi, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Wan Harun Himratul-Aznita

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Hany Mohamed Aly Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.