About the Authors

Afnan Faridoun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

afnan.faridoun@ku.edu.kw

Affiliation Department of General Dental Practice, College of Dentistry, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Ramon Carvalho

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta

Jacob Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Andrew Gibb

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta

Lavanya Jain

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta

Annie Zhang

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Translational Research, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait city, Kuwait

Ajay Sran

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Translational Research, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait city, Kuwait

Johanna Redmond

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Translational Research, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait city, Kuwait

Mohammad Zubbair Malik

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation High School Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) Program, University of Alberta, Alberta

Monica Gibson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Anum Haider

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta

Umar Rekhi

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta

Anjali Bhagirath

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Leigha D. Rock

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

Affiliations Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Department of Anatomical Pathology, QEII Hospital, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Canada

Khaled Altabtbaei

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

Affiliations School of dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta, High School Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) Program, University of Alberta, Alberta

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.