Mota de Almeida, Fernando José https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-9451
Norberg Cedering, Jonas
Pettersson, Mattias
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 28 January 2026
Accepted: 12 June 2026
First Online: 20 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study was based on anonymized data from the Swedish National Dental Health Register, which could not be tracked back to the individual patients. Ethical approval from the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (approval number: Dnr 2022-05579-01. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (75th WMA General Assembly, Helsinki, October 2024). According to Swedish regulations, informed consent was not required for studies using anonymized registry data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.