About the Authors

Masao Irie

mirie@md.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama, Japan

Yukinori Maruo

Affiliation Occlusion and Removable Prosthodontics, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Goro Nishigawa

Affiliation Occlusion and Removable Prosthodontics, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MI. Data curation: GN. Formal analysis: YM. Funding acquisition: MI. Investigation: GN YM. Methodology: MI. Project administration: MI. Resources: MI. Software: MI. Supervision: MI. Validation: GN. Visualization: YM. Writing – original draft: MI. Writing – review & editing: MI.