About the Authors

Mengjiao Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengjiao Zhu, Jialing Li

Affiliation Department of Oral Sciences, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jialing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengjiao Zhu, Jialing Li

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Bin Chen

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Li Mei

Affiliation Discipline of Orthodontics, Department of Oral Science, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Liang Yao

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China

Jinhui Tian

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China

Huang Li

Lihuang76@nju.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Oral Sciences, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL MZ HL. Performed the experiments: JL MZ HL. Analyzed the data: JL MZ JT LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY BC. Wrote the paper: MZ JL BC LM JT HL.