About the Authors

J. Max Goodson

mgoodson@forsyth.org

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mor-Li Hartman

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ping Shi

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hatice Hasturk

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tina Yaskell

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jorel Vargas

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaoqing Song

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maryann Cugini

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roula Barake

Affiliation The Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Osama Alsmadi

Affiliation The Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Sabiha Al-Mutawa

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Jitendra Ariga

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Pramod Soparkar

Affiliation Department of Applied Oral Sciences, the Forsyth Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jawad Behbehani

Affiliation Kuwait University, Faculty of Dentistry, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Kazem Behbehani

Affiliation The Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors of this review received no financial support and declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JMG KB. Data curation: JMG. Formal analysis: JMG P. Shi. Funding acquisition: JMG. Investigation: MH HH TY JV XS MC RB OA JB SA JA P. Soparkar. Methodology: JMG MH. Project administration: JMG. Resources: TY. Supervision: JMG MH. Visualization: JMG MH. Writing – original draft: JMG. Writing – review & editing: JMG MH.