Hirata, Takahisa
Fuchida, Shinya
Yamamoto, Tatsuo
Kudo, Chieko
Minabe, Masato
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japanese Society of Periodontology (Grant-in-planning for Advanced Research (2012))
Article History
Received: 30 October 2018
Accepted: 4 January 2019
First Online: 15 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Aichi Gakuin University School of Dentistry (no. 276) and the Research Ethics Committee of Kanagawa Dental University (no. 388) and conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants gave written informed consent to participate, and their anonymity was preserved.
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