About the Authors

Dandan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Dandan Ma, Li Cui

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Li Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Dandan Ma, Li Cui

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Jie Gao

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Wenjuan Yan

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Ying Liu

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Shuaimei Xu

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Buling Wu

bulingwu1958@163.com

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, P.R. China, College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BW DM LC. Performed the experiments: DM LC JG WY YL SX. Analyzed the data: DM LC JG WY YL SX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW JG WY. Wrote the paper: LC DM BW.