Correction to Proof of Concept Design for a Toothbrush With On-Board Vacuum to Reduce Oral Aspirates

Abstract

Our NIH Program officer would like us to remove the funding association of grant R01DE31812 from the funding section of this PUBLISHED manuscript since it is not directly part of the Aims of the grant.

We apologise for this error.

In page 7, Acknowledgements section, ‘We thank all the NJIT BME Capstone Design students who have participated in the development of this device as well as Dr. Maxine Strickland at RSDM and Kaytlyn Crowe (NJIT) for their helpful comments for initial prototypes. V.K. acknowledges support from the NIDCR R01DE031812 (PI), NIDCR R01DE029321 (Co-I), NEI R15EY029504 (PI), NIAMS R21AR077835 (PI), NCATS UL1TR003017 (PI), NSF IIP 2041092 (PI) and the Undergraduate Research and Innovation program at NJIT’ was incorrect.

The text should read

‘We thank all the NJIT BME Capstone Design students who have participated in the development of this device as well as Dr. Maxine Strickland at RSDM and Kaytlyn Crowe (NJIT) for their helpful comments for initial prototypes. V.K. acknowledges support from the NIDCR R01DE029321 (Co-I), NEI R15EY029504 (PI), NIAMS R21AR077835 (PI), NCATS UL1TR003017 (PI), NSF IIP 2041092 (PI) and the Undergraduate Research and Innovation program at NJIT’.

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