Alshikh, Basma Abd Alkader https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1630-1804
Eid, Mohamed Hassan
Amin, Amr
Elsholkamy, Mohamed
Funding for this research was provided by:
British University in Egypt
Article History
Received: 10 February 2026
Accepted: 15 May 2026
First Online: 16 June 2026
Declarations
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: This study was conducted following Guidelines and Norms Regulating Research Involving Human Subjects. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Faculty of Dentistry, Suez Canal University research ethical committee, with approval number 393/2021. All eligible patients provided written informed consent to participate in the current study. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.