Rao, Siqi
Zhou, Jing
Niu, Wei
Dong, Chenlu
Pan, Shijie
Sun, Wei
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province–Joint Fund for Medical and Health Industry (2025JJ80533)
Article History
Received: 7 February 2026
Accepted: 5 May 2026
First Online: 13 May 2026
Declarations
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: This study was a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (Approval No. (2023) [Research] No. 87). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrollment.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.