About the Authors

Jitendra Jethwani

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Jethwani, Gayathri Sundari, Esam Tashkandi, Caroline K. Carrico

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

jjethwani@vcu.edu

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gayathri Sundari

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Jethwani, Gayathri Sundari, Esam Tashkandi, Caroline K. Carrico

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Lovely M. Annamma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Restorative Dentistry, Saveetha Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Dental Research Cell, Dr D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Esam Tashkandi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Jethwani, Gayathri Sundari, Esam Tashkandi, Caroline K. Carrico

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Caroline K. Carrico

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Jethwani, Gayathri Sundari, Esam Tashkandi, Caroline K. Carrico

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.