About the Authors

Xi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chen, Yu Zhang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Yu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chen, Yu Zhang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Hai-Xia Lu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Xi-Ping Feng

fxiping1808@qq.com

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XPF. Performed the experiments: YZ. Analyzed the data: HXL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC. Wrote the paper: XC.