Temraz, Mohamed Elsayed https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1827-4276
Shemais, Nesma
Khalil, Eman
Ghalwash, Dalia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2541-7243
Elbarbary, Ahmed
Article History
Received: 3 May 2025
Revised: 13 July 2025
Accepted: 15 July 2025
First Online: 25 August 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and adhered to the CONSORT guidelines for reporting randomized clinical trials. Ethical approval was granted by the Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University (approval number: 8 | 12 | 22) and informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their inclusion in the study. The research was pre-registered on . (registration number: NCT05779800).