About the Authors

Sarina Moradianlotfi

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

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Tahere Yousefi

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Afsaneh Goudarzi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahmad Reza Shamshiri

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

Affiliations Research Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Samira Derakhshan

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

sderakhshan@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.