About the Authors

Simon D. Tran

simon.tran@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Younan Liu

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Dengsheng Xia

Current address: Capital Medical University School of Stomatology, Beijing, China

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Ola M. Maria

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Saeed Khalili

Current address: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Renee Wan-Jou Wang

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Vu-Hung Quan

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Shen Hu

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jan Seuntjens

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST YL DX OM SK RW VQ SH JS. Performed the experiments: ST YL DX OM SK RW DX JS. Analyzed the data: ST YL OM SK RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST YL JS. Wrote the paper: ST YL OM SK RW SH JS.