Ariji, Yoshiko
Kusano, Kaoru
Fukuda, Motoki
Wakata, Yo
Nozawa, Michihito
Kotaki, Shinya
Ariji, Eiichiro
Baba, Shunsuke
Article History
Received: 9 April 2024
Accepted: 7 August 2024
First Online: 29 August 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: All procedures performed on human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of our institutional and/or national research committee, and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committees of Osaka Dental University (Approval No. 111195–0) granted permission for this study. Ethics approval was also obtained from the co-authors' institution for the use of external testing dataset (Approval No. 586).
: For this type of study (retrospective study), formal consent is not required. Patients were given the opportunity to decline participation via an opt-out format. Declaration regarding generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the creating process: The generative AI (ChatGPT) was not used in the manuscript writing process.