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Article History

Received: 13 September 2025

Accepted: 12 March 2026

First Online: 25 March 2026

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests

: All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Calgary and were conducted in accordance with the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. This article does not contain any studies with human participants; therefore, human consent was not required.

: Sample size calculation was not performed (no a priori power calculation was conducted).

: Healthy, age-matched adult mice as detailed in Materials and Methods.

: Mice with dysplastic teeth.

: Animals were randomized when assigning to experimental groups.

: Blinding was not performed during data acquisition and analysis.