Lim, Sarah Wan-Lin
Lee, Wei Shiu
Mani, Shani Ann http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-1887
Kadir, Kathreena
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Malaya Research Grant - Programme (RP053A-17HTM)
Article History
Received: 19 April 2018
Accepted: 15 July 2019
First Online: 22 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethical approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Medical Ethics Committee, Faculty of dentistry, University Malaya [(Reference number: DF CD1606/0029(U)]. Being a retrospective study, data was collected from records of patients stored in the Faculty of Dentistry, University Malaya. Data was anonymised and de-identified prior to analysis. Written and verbal consent was obtained from all patients and parents of participants under 18 years of age included in the study as a routine procedure at the time of examination, diagnosis and treatment. This was approved by the ethics committee.