Viciano, Joan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7575-557X
Icaro, Iuri http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7319-5713
Tanga, Carmen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5053-9408
Tripodi, Domenico
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio Chieti Pescara
Article History
Received: 23 May 2022
Accepted: 12 October 2022
First Online: 20 October 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical review and approval were waived for this study, due to the reason that data processing complies with the general authorization for scientific research purposes granted by the Italian Data Protection Authority (1 March 2012 as published in Italy’s Official Journal no. 72 dated 26 March 2012) since the data do not entail any significant personalized impact on data subjects. Approval by an institutional and/or licencing committee is not required since experimental protocols are not applied in the study. The patients’ data were completely anonymized, according to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council: “The data protection principles should therefore not apply to anonymous information, i.e. information that does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data made sufficiently anonymous to prevent or no longer allow the identification of the data subject. Therefore, this regulation does not apply to the processing of such anonymous information, including for statistical or research purposes”.
: Patient consent was waived due to the reason listed above which makes specific Informed Consent unnecessary. As this is a study using anonymized 30 teeth, it was impossible to contact patients to obtain specific consent for this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.