Ethics approval and consent to participate
Approval was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University with approval number 972. Individual patient’s data and results have been kept confidential by a filing systems with passwords to protect them being preached. Patient’s names were not shown in the analyzed data; instead, they were encoded by a coding system known by the main investigator only. The study was conducted by the Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. The ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier for this study is NCT05247008. All patients gave written consent by signing the informed consent form to participate in the study.