Article History
Received: 13 December 2023
Revised: 5 February 2024
Accepted: 6 February 2024
First Online: 11 March 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The research project was ethically approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University (UDDS-693-07092020/SRC-1450). Children’s parents were given all the information about the aim of this procedure and signed the informed consent.