Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the department head of the Tissue Lab at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai for providing us with ACM for this research. We would also like to thank the department head of the Oral Radiology, Modern Dental College and Research Center in Indore for guiding us with our image analysis.
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