Andriukaitiene, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9965-4017
Song, Xiaobo
Yang, Nannan
Lassila, Lippo V. J.
Vallittu, Pekka K.
Kerosuo, Eero
Article History
Received: 4 December 2017
Accepted: 7 November 2018
First Online: 13 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We declare that we have followed the ethical guidelines stated in the legislation in Finland in the Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs, Tissues, and Cells, issued by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland, in Helsinki on 2nd February 2001, see section 20 amended 30.11.2012 (689/2012) attached and highlighted in yellow. As the teeth were previously extracted for therapeutic purposes (treatment not related to this study) and no personal data were used, the permission by the Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, was found adequate. The document is attached as a separate file under the title- "Legislation". 3 (Additional file InternalRef removed). All teeth were extracted due to therapeutical reason not related with the study at the Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku. Such teeth are collected, stored under the special conditions and used for the further research studies with the Institute"
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