Funding for this research was provided by:
The Luzhou Science and Technology Plan Project (2023SYF127)
the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2022YFS0634)
the Sichuan Province Medical Research Project (S21015)
the Scientific Project of Southwest Medical University (2021ZKMS013)
Article History
Received: 8 May 2024
Accepted: 8 August 2024
First Online: 15 August 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Southwest Medical University (certificate number: 20220818001).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.