Vijayakumar, Krithic Chithra Banu
Sridharan, Geetha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8828-2350
Prasad, Tangutur Srinivasa
Deepanjali, Megarasu
Parthasarathy, Bhuvaneshwari https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6527-9733
Evelyn R, Nissi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2418-1216
Article History
Received: 2 April 2025
Accepted: 22 July 2025
First Online: 11 August 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants followed the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and were performed in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Meenakshi Ammal Dental College. The Institutional Review Board has approved the study by providing an ethical clearance number (MADC/IEC/III/75/2023).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.