Shoaee, Shervan
Ghasemi, Erfan
Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad
Shamsoddin, Erfan
Tovani-Palone, Marcos Roberto
Roshani, Shahin
Heydari, Mohammad-Hossein
Yoosefi, Moein
Masinaei, Masoud
Azadnaejafabadi, Sina
Mohammadi, Esmaeil
Rezaei, Negar
Larijani, Bagher
Fakhrzadeh, Hossein
Farzadfar, Farshad
Article History
Received: 7 June 2022
Accepted: 19 December 2023
First Online: 20 January 2024
Change Date: 2 May 2024
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-024-04236-3
Declarations
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: We did not use individual human data in this study and all the analyses were based on population level data by age groups, sex, location, cause and year from the GBD study (available at: ). Also, this study was approved by the ethics committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1397.014). As we used no individual human data, the ethics committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran waived the need for informed consent. This study complies with Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) recommendations []. Further information is available elsewhere [].
: Not applicable.
: Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi is an editor at BMC Oral Health. Other authors have no competing interests.