About the Authors

Juan Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Wen, Yuanyuan Jiang

Affiliation Orthodontic Department, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Yuanyuan Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Wen, Yuanyuan Jiang

Affiliation Orthodontic Department, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Caixia Zhang

Affiliation Orthodontic Department, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Sheng Chen

Affiliation Pathological Department, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Huang Li

Lihuang76@nju.edu.cn

Affiliation Orthodontic Department, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW HL. Performed the experiments: JW YYJ SC. Analyzed the data: JW CXZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: JW HL.