About the Authors

Kensuke Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kensukeyoshida-nii@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry & Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, Division of Hospital Pharmacy, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Yasumitsu Kodama

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasumitsu Kodama, Yusuke Tanaka, Kyongsun Pak

Roles Conceptualization

Current address: Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Affiliation Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry & Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Yusuke Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasumitsu Kodama, Yusuke Tanaka, Kyongsun Pak

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Hospital Pharmacy, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Kyongsun Pak

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasumitsu Kodama, Yusuke Tanaka, Kyongsun Pak

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Division of Biostatistics, Center for Clinical Research, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Center for Clinical Research, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Marie Soga

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Oral Radiology, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Akira Toyama

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Hospital Pharmacy, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Kouji Katsura

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Oral Radiology, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Ritsuo Takagi

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry & Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.