Therefore, an interesting elaboration of this study would be to extend the study to include the other actors within the treatment context.
The elaboration of the study results required additional work by the authors.
Jamil Awad Shibli was in charge of the elaboration of the study proposal and the financial support of the study, and he participated in the elaboration of the paper and the treatment planning of each case.
Jamil Awad Shibli, Claudia Otandsuzuki, and José Augusto Rodrigues were in charge of the elaboration of the study proposal and the financial support of the study, and they participated in the elaboration of the paper.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/68/prepub The author thanks Dr. Alice Zelmanowicz for her assistance in the elaboration of this study, the Medical Cooperative for granting permission to carry out the study and evaluating the office visits, and to UFRGS for providing the knowledge for research development.
Adriano Piattelli also participated in the elaboration of the study proposal.
EA participated to the elaboration of the study and experiment design.
KM participated in the elaboration of the study design and made all the statistical analysis.
AT, YD, and LP participated to the elaboration of the study design.
CS: was involved in supervision of the research process, elaboration of the study design and full correction of the manuscript.
All authors except RC participated in the elaboration of the study protocol and the collection of data.
