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Article History

Received: 28 August 2024

Revised: 14 November 2024

Accepted: 21 November 2024

First Online: 6 January 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This clinical study was held in the Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Egypt. The protocol of the study was revised and approved on 15/06/2020 by the committee of the research plan and evidence-based in the Conservative Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Egypt. The number of the involved participants in this study was calculated, revised, and approved by the Medical Biostatistics Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. The clinical procedures and logistics of this clinical trial were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University with approval number 04/06/2020 in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and its later modifications. Then, the protocol of the clinical trial was registered in the () database in 11/06/2020; with the unique identification number NCT04426604. An informed consent with an easy Arabic language as the mother language of the participants was signed by the recruited participants. The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form, the patient(s) has/ have given his/ her/ their consent for his/ her/ their images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patients understand that their names and initials will not be published, and due efforts will be made to conceal their identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.