Flores-Hidalgo, Andres http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4073-7210
Phero, James
Steward-Tharp, Scott
Williamson, Megumi
Paquette, David
Krishnan, Deepak
Padilla, Ricardo
Funding for this research was provided by:
East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine
East Carolina University - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (ECU-UNC Research Collaboration Grant, ECU-UNC Research Collaboration Grant)
Article History
Received: 10 January 2024
Accepted: 30 January 2024
First Online: 8 March 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare they have no financial or non-financial conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Institutional Review Boards of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and East Carolina University registered, reviewed, and approved the study protocol, with the numbers 16–5988 and UMCIRB-21-001256, respectively.
: A waiver of authorization was obtained during the IRB approval process. For this type of study, consent is not required.