Kielbassa, Andrej M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7493-2175
Summer, Sabrina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1489-8638
Frank, Wilhelm https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9422-4647
Lynch, Edward https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1350-3016
Batzer, Julia-Susanne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8420-7732
Article History
Received: 18 February 2024
Accepted: 27 May 2024
First Online: 30 May 2024
Competing interests
: A.M.K. is named as inventor in Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, European, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swiss, U.K., and U.S. patents (held by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) for the resin infiltration of initially carious enamel (“Method and means for infiltrating enamel lesions”, Patent Number: EP 1854445 A1). These patents have been licensed by DMG (Hamburg, Germany), and A.M.K. receives patent royalties from this license, disbursed by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Furthermore, A.M.K. and E.L. are Editorial Board Members and Academic Editors of Scientific Reports; according to the Journal’s recusal process, they were involved neither in the peer review nor in the editorial decision-making process for the present paper. S.S. and W.F. declare that they have no competing interests. This investigation will be part of J.-S.B.’s final examination requirements, and will serve as the basis for her diploma thesis.