Dillibabu, Theerthika
Laprise, Claudie
Nicolau, Belinda
Madathil, Sreenath
Funding for this research was provided by:
Réseau de recherche en santé buccodentaire et osseuse, The Alpha Omega Foundation of Canada, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé salary
Article History
Received: 31 March 2025
Accepted: 16 May 2025
First Online: 5 June 2025
Declarations
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: The Commission d’accès à l’Information, the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec, as well as the Institut de la statistique du Québec approved the study and gave access to administrative data. All the data used for this work was anonymous, the researchers had no information on the population under study. The institutional ethics review board from McGill University and Université de Montréal have approved the study. McGill University’s Research Ethics Board approved the data access and utilization methodology for this study, including the waiver of individual participant consent, in compliance with Articles 5.5 A and 5.5B of the Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 (TCPS2). The TCPS2 serves as Canada’s authoritative regulatory framework governing ethical conduct in research involving human participants.
: The authors declare no competing interests.