About the Authors

Zhongchun Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongchun Tong, Yuejiao Zhang

Affiliations Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yuejiao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongchun Tong, Yuejiao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Junqi Ling

Junqi_Ling@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jinglei Ma

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lijia Huang

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Luodan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZT YZ JL. Performed the experiments: ZT YZ. Analyzed the data: ZT YZ JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ LH LZ. Wrote the paper: ZT.