Authors’ contributions
A. Regueira-Iglesias
DENTAL PLAQUE
C. Balsa-Castro and I. Tomás contributed to the conception and design of the study; B. Suárez-Rodríguez and T. Blanco-Pintos explored the patients, prepared the mouthwashes, and performed the experiments; N. Vila-Blanco and M.J. Carreira developed the software tool for the quantification of dental plaque levels; C. Balsa-Castro performed the statistical analysis, graphs, and tables; B. Suárez-Rodríguez, A. Regueira-Iglesias and I. Tomás drafted the manuscript; M.J. Carreira carried out a critical revision of the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.