About the Authors

Shiho Sugawara

Affiliations Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Prosthodontics and Oral Implantology, Iwate Medical University, School of Dental Medicine, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Masahiko Maeno

Affiliations Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Adhesive Dentistry, The Nippon Dental University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Cliff Lee

Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shigemi Nagai

Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David M. Kim

Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Da Silva

Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Masazumi Nagai

Masazumi_Nagai@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hisatomo Kondo

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics and Oral Implantology, Iwate Medical University, School of Dental Medicine, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SS MN DMK. Data curation: SS MM MN. Formal analysis: MM CL. Funding acquisition: SN HK. Investigation: SN MN. Methodology: MM MN. Project administration: SN. Resources: SN. Supervision: SN MN HK. Validation: SN MN. Visualization: SS MM. Writing – original draft: SS. Writing – review & editing: SS MM CL SN DMK JDS MN HK.