About the Authors

Shuncheng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuncheng Zhou, Juanjuan Yan, Hu Da

Affiliations Department of Orthodontics, The 161th Hospital of PLA, Wuhan, China, Department of Orthodontics, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Juanjuan Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuncheng Zhou, Juanjuan Yan, Hu Da

Affiliation Department of Prosthetics, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Hu Da

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuncheng Zhou, Juanjuan Yan, Hu Da

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The 82nd Hospital of PLA, Huaian, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Na Wang

Affiliation Department of Prosthetics, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Wenyong Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yin Ding

yanwuliu210@126.com (SS); yang200214@163.com (YD)

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Shiyao Sun

yanwuliu210@126.com (SS); yang200214@163.com (YD)

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, The 161th Hospital of PLA, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD S-YS. Performed the experiments: S-CZ J-JY HD. Analyzed the data: YY W-YW NW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD S-YS. Wrote the paper: S-CZ J-JY HD.