About the Authors

Zheng-Rong Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng-Rong Gao, Qiong Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Qiong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng-Rong Gao, Qiong Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jie Zhao

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Ya-Qiong Zhao

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Li Tan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Shao-Hui Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Ying-Hui Zhou

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Metabolic Bone Diseases, and Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yun Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yue Guo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

guoyue@csu.edu.cn (YG); fengyunzhi001@csu.edu.cn (Y-ZF)

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yun-Zhi Feng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

guoyue@csu.edu.cn (YG); fengyunzhi001@csu.edu.cn (Y-ZF)

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.