Pouraskari, Zahra
Yazdani, Reza
Khademi, Maryam
Hessari, Hossein
Funding for this research was provided by:
This study was supported by Research Centre for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (99-3-234-51080)
Article History
Received: 16 March 2024
Accepted: 11 June 2024
First Online: 24 June 2024
Declarations
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: All parts of the study were conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The researchers did not have any personal familiarity with the insurance clients, and the insurance dataset did not contain any personal information. The data was obtained after ethical approval of the Ethics Committee of the School of Dentistry. The need for consent by participants (insured people) was waived, accordingly, like in any other study on the secondary data by the Ethics Committee of the School of Dentistry at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (). The study received approval from the Ethics Committee of the School of Dentistry at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IR.TUMS.DENTISTRY.REC.1399.241).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.