About the Authors

Yan Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Gao, Ying Liu

Affiliation Center of Oral Implantology, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Ying Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Gao, Ying Liu

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, and College of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Lei Zhou

zho668@263.net

Affiliation Center of Oral Implantology, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Zehong Guo

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Mingdeng Rong

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xiangning Liu

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Chunhua Lai

Affiliation Center of Oral Implantology, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xianglong Ding

Affiliation Center of Oral Implantology, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ YG. Performed the experiments: YG YL ZG. Analyzed the data: YG YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR XL CL XD. Wrote the paper: YG YL LZ.