About the Authors

Chun-Yen Lin

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Li Wei

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Jen Chang

Affiliation School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Kai Huang

Affiliation School of Oral Hygiene, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sheng-Wei Feng

Affiliation School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Che-Tong Lin

Affiliation School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sheng-Yang Lee

hhm@tmu.edu.tw (SL); hhm@tmu.edu.tw (HH)

Affiliation School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Haw-Ming Huang

hhm@tmu.edu.tw (SL); hhm@tmu.edu.tw (HH)

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the paper: CTL. Conceived and designed the experiments: SYL HMH. Performed the experiments: CYL SWF. Analyzed the data: PLW WJC YKH. Wrote the paper: CYL HMH.