About the Authors

Matthew R. Mason

Affiliation Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Haikady N. Nagaraja

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Terry Camerlengo

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Vinayak Joshi

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Maratha Mandal’s NGH Institute of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Belgaum, India

Purnima S. Kumar

kumar.83@osu.edu

Affiliation Division of Periodontology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSK. Performed the experiments: MRM VJ TC. Analyzed the data: PSK MRM HNN. Wrote the paper: PSK MRM.