Antonelli, Alessandro
Brunello, Giulia
Salviati, Marianna
Barone, Selene
Bennardo, Francesco
Jones, Jason Motta
Giudice, Amerigo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli studi "Magna Graecia" di Catanzaro
Article History
Received: 26 May 2026
Accepted: 11 June 2026
First Online: 18 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ethical approval was provided by the Regional Ethics Committee (reference for Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy—n. 123/2023). This randomized clinical trial was registered at (NCT06212232) on January 25, 2024. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The patients signed informed consent regarding publication of their data and photographs.
: Dr. Jason Motta Jones serves as a scientific consultant for Mectron S.p.A., Genoa, Italy. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT Plus in order to linguistic sparring. After using this tool, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.