About the Authors

Tao Jiang

Affiliations Department of Stomatology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Department of General Dentistry, Jinan Stomatological Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Guoxia Liu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinan Stomatological Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hongchen Liu

liuhcoral@163.com

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJ HCL. Performed the experiments: TJ GXL. Analyzed the data: TJ LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJ GXL. Wrote the paper: TJ LW HCL.