About the Authors

Yoko Ohyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoko Ohyama, Junta Ito

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Oral Anatomy, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Junta Ito

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoko Ohyama, Junta Ito

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

y-hakeda@dent.meikai.ac.jp (YH); junta@josai.ac.jp (JI)

Current address: Josai University, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Clinical Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Affiliation Division of Oral Anatomy, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Victor J. Kitano

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Oral Anatomy, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Jun Shimada

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Yoshiyuki Hakeda

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

y-hakeda@dent.meikai.ac.jp (YH); junta@josai.ac.jp (JI)

Affiliation Division of Oral Anatomy, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Sakado, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.