About the Authors

Edson Yukio Komiyama

Affiliation Department of Oral Biosciences and Diagnosis, Oral Biopathology Graduate Program, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Laura Soares Souto Lepesqueur

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Soares Souto Lepesqueur, Cinthia Gomes Yassuda

Affiliation Department of Oral Biosciences and Diagnosis, Oral Biopathology Graduate Program, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Cinthia Gomes Yassuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Soares Souto Lepesqueur, Cinthia Gomes Yassuda

Affiliation Department of Oral Biosciences and Diagnosis, Oral Biopathology Graduate Program, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Lakshman P. Samaranayake

Affiliation UQ Oral Health Centre, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Nipuna B. Parahitiyawa

Affiliation Department of Oral Bio-Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China

Ivan Balducci

Affiliation Department of Social Dentistry, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Cristiane Yumi Koga-Ito

cristiane@ict.unesp.br

Affiliations Department of Oral Biosciences and Diagnosis, Oral Biopathology Graduate Program, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CYKI LPS. Data curation: IB NBP LPS CYKI. Formal analysis: EYK LSSL CGY NBP LPS IB CYKI. Funding acquisition: CYKI LPS. Investigation: EYK LSSL CGY NBP LPS CYKI. Methodology: EYK LSSL CGY NBP LPS IB CYKI. Project administration: CYKI LPS. Resources: CYKI LSP. Supervision: CYKI. Validation: EYK LSSL CGY NBP. Visualization: NBP IB LPS CYKI. Writing – original draft: EYK NBP LPS IB CYKI. Writing – review & editing: EYK LSSL CGY NBP LPS IB CYKI.