Article History
Received: 22 December 2017
Accepted: 30 April 2018
First Online: 9 May 2018
Author’s information
: Dr. Dan Henry Levy received his DMD degree from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University in 2012. He received his MSc degree in health science from the department of microbiology, immunology and genetics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2017. He is involved in many dental intervention programs and researches in the IDF medical corps and serves as deputy commander of the northern dental specialist center.Dr. Alon Livny received from the Hebrew University his DMD degree (1997) and MPH degree (2004). Since 1998 he was a member of the department of Community Dentistry in the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, where he served as teacher, lecturer and researcher. Dr. Livny has initiated and supervised many intervention programs in various communities, and also participated in several epidemiological studies. Since 2014 he is also the director of dental students' clinics in the HU Dental School.Prof. Harold D. Sgan-Cohen DMD MPH has published extensively on subjects related to oral health epidemiology and dental public health in Israel and abroad. Since 1978 he has served in the Department of Community Dentistry of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine. He obtained his Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree in 1983 and full professorship in 2010. He served as the Pan European (PER) Board Member of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) from 2010-2013 and currently is President-Elect of IADR-PER.Dr Nirit Yavnai received her DMD degree from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University in 2000. She was awarded with a MPH degree from the school of Public Health, Haifa University in 2008. She graduated the residency in Public Health Dentistry and is a licensed specialist from 2012. After various professional military assignments she is the current head of medical research directorate in the IDF.
: This study was approved by the Israeli Defense Force Institutional Review Board (#1371–2014), and the research was conducted in full accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. As this was a retrospective study of existing data, and the original data collecting was part of a compulsory examinations, the ethical approval included exemption from Informed consent. However, all subject had to give verbal consent before those examinations.
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