About the Authors
- Inga Harks
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Contributed equally to this work with: Inga Harks, Yvonne Jockel-Schneider
Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Yvonne Jockel-Schneider
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Contributed equally to this work with: Inga Harks, Yvonne Jockel-Schneider
Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Ulrich Schlagenhauf
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Theodor W. May
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Affiliation Society for Biometry and Psychometry, Bielefeld, Germany
- Martina Gravemeier
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Karola Prior
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Gregor Petersilka
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Affiliations Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Private Practice, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Benjamin Ehmke
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* E-mail: ehmke@uni-muenster.de
Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Competing Interests
All study affairs have been exclusively funded by Dr. Kurt Wolff GmbH & CO. KG, Johanneswerkstr. 34 – 36, 33611 Bielefeld, Germany. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BE IH US YJ-S GP. Performed the experiments: IH YJ-S. Analyzed the data: TWM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG KP. Wrote the paper: IH YJ-S US BE GP. Managed the trial: IH YJ-S MG. Performed the microbiological analyses: KP.