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Article History

Received: 23 February 2016

Accepted: 27 June 2016

First Online: 15 July 2016

Compliance with ethical standards

: This research was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research of the Faculty of Dentistry of São José dos Campos Júlio de Mesquita Filho—UNESP, protocol number 071/2011, according to Resolution Number 196/96.

: To the Publishing Commission of the Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryThe authors Maria Fernanda Lima Villaça-Carvalho, Luiz Roberto Coutinho Manhães Júnior, Mari Eli Leonelli de Moraes, and Sérgio Lúcio Pereira de Castro Lopes hereby submit the original manuscript entitled Prevalence of bifid mandibular canals by cone beam computed tomography to theOral and Maxillofacial Surgery, represented by the Journal’s Publishing Commission. The authors certify that said manuscript is original and does not infringe any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret rights, or any other proprietary rights of third parties and that is no confict of interest.The authors also declare that, except where explicitly disclosed, they have no financial interest or agreement with any entity that may be perceived as bearing on the objectivity of the manuscript, unless said financial interest or agreement has been disclosed in writing to theOral and Maxillofacial Surgery, in a separate document, signed by all authors.The authors further declare that the study, whose results are reported in the manuscript, was performed in compliance with the current policies of the institutions to which the authors are affiliated, related to the use of animal and/or human subjects, and/or animal- or human-derived material (Institutional Ethics Committee approval).The authors agree to indemnify theOral and Maxillofacial Surgeryand to hold theOral and Maxillofacial Surgeryharmless from any claims, costs, lawyers’ fees, indemnity, or license fees incurred by the Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy as a result of any claim of infringement of rights, or of any violation of Institutional Ethics Committee compliance, arising in whole or in part from publication of the manuscript.