Correction to: BDJ Open https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-024-00266-9, published online 22 October 2024

When originally published on 22 October 2024, the affiliation of the last author in the author list was incorrect. Please see the correct author list and affiliations below:

Nermine Hassan,1 Mona Riad,2 Shereen Hafez Ibrahim,2,* Khaled Mahmoud,3 Bassam Ahmed Abulnoor4 and Reham Hassan5,6

1Lecturer of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. 2Professor of Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. 3Assistant professor of Pharmacognosy, Drug Bioassay Cell Culture Laboratory Cancer. National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt. 4PhD candidate, Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. 5Professor of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Egyptian Russian University, Badr City, Egypt. 6Professor of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Minia University, Minya, Egypt. *email: shereen.hafez@dentistry.cu.edu.eg

The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused. The original article has been corrected.