About the Authors
- Ljubomir Vitkov
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ljubomir Vitkov, Wolf-Dietrich Krautgartner, Astrid Obermayer
* E-mail: dominik.hartl@med.uni-tuebingen.de (DH); lvitkov@yahoo.com (LV)
Affiliations Department of Zoological Structure Research, Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, Clinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
- Wolf-Dietrich Krautgartner
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ljubomir Vitkov, Wolf-Dietrich Krautgartner, Astrid Obermayer
Affiliation Department of Zoological Structure Research, Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Astrid Obermayer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ljubomir Vitkov, Wolf-Dietrich Krautgartner, Astrid Obermayer
Affiliation Department of Zoological Structure Research, Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Walter Stoiber
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Affiliation Department of Zoological Structure Research, Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Matthias Hannig
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Affiliation Clinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
- Michaela Klappacher
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Affiliation Department of Zoological Structure Research, Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Dominik Hartl
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* E-mail: dominik.hartl@med.uni-tuebingen.de (DH); lvitkov@yahoo.com (LV)
Affiliation Children’s Hospital and Interdisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Competing Interests
Dental Ratio Company (Langenfeld, NRW, Germany) provided SLA titanium test plates and financial support. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LV AO MH WDK. Performed the experiments: AO MK WDK. Analyzed the data: AO MK MH WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO MK LV WDK WS. Wrote the paper: LV DH.