About the Authors

Zhongchun Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongchun Tong, Luodan Zhang

Affiliations Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Luodan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongchun Tong, Luodan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Junqi Ling

Junqi_Ling@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yutao Jian

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lijia Huang

Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Dongmei Deng

Affiliation Department of Cariology Endodontology Pedodontology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Universiteit van Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL ZT. Performed the experiments: ZT LZ. Analyzed the data: ZT LZ LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ YJ DD. Wrote the paper: ZT.