About the Authors

Jia-Sin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Sin Yang, Chiao-Wen Lin

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chiao-Wen Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Sin Yang, Chiao-Wen Lin

Affiliations Institute of Oral Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Dentistry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chung-Han Hsin

Affiliations School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Ming-Ju Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu-Chao Chang

cyc@csmu.edu.tw (Y-CC)

Affiliations Department of Dentistry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Dentistry, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSY YCC. Performed the experiments: JSY MJH. Analyzed the data: JSY CHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWL. Wrote the manuscript: CWL YCC.