About the Authors

Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sofima@mcmaster.ca, a.sofimahmudi@gmail.com.

Affiliations National Pain Centre, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Seqiz Health Network, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Seqiz, Kurdistan

Eero Raittio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Dentistry, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Sergio E. Uribe

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Conservative Dentistry and Oral Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, School of Dentistry, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence, Headquarters at Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.