About the Authors

Yang-peng Sun

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

You-hua Zheng

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Wen-jing Liu

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yu-liang Zheng

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Zhi-guang Zhang

kouqiangzzg@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPS. Performed the experiments: YPS WJL YLZ. Analyzed the data: YPS YHZ YLZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPS WJL. Wrote the paper: YPS YHZ. Guided conception of the study, advised and oversaw the work: ZGZ.