About the Authors
- Hong Wang
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Affiliations Department of Stomatology, General Hospital of the People’s Libration Army, Beijing, China, Department of Stomatology, the Second Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Liaoning Medical University, Jinzhou, China
- Bingjing Zhao
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Affiliations Department of Stomatology, General Hospital of the People’s Libration Army, Beijing, China, Department of Stomatology, the Second Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Liaoning Medical University, Jinzhou, China
- Changkui Liu
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Affiliation Department of Stomatology, the 451th Hospital of the People’s Libration Army, Xi’an, China
- Chao Wang
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- Xinying Tan
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Affiliation Department of Stomatology, the 304th Hospital of the People’s Libration Army, Beijing, China
- Min Hu
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* E-mail: humin48@vip.163.com
Affiliation Department of Stomatology, General Hospital of the People’s Libration Army, Beijing, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: HW BZ. Analyzed the data: HW XT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW BZ CL CW. Wrote the paper: HW BZ. Executed the cell culture, cell studies, animal studies, data analyses and manuscript organization: HW. Carried out the metal samples fabrication, animals studies and manuscript organization: BZ. Contributed equal to this project: HW BZ. Contributed to assistance of the animal studies: CL CW. Contributed to assisstance of data collection and analyses: XT. Responsible for the overall study design and planning: MH.