About the Authors

Han Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Han Lin, Ping Zhu

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, China

Ping Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Han Lin, Ping Zhu

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, China

Qiuping Lin

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoqiong Huang

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, China

Yue Xu

kou9315@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoping Yang

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, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YX. Data curation: HL PZ. Formal analysis: PZ QL. Investigation: HL PZ QL XH. Methodology: YX XY. Project administration: YX. Resources: YX XY. Software: HL PZ. Validation: YX HL. Writing – original draft: HL. Writing – review & editing: YX PZ HL.