About the Authors

Palati Tuerxun

Contributed equally to this work with: Palati Tuerxun, Takkun Ng

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Takkun Ng

Contributed equally to this work with: Palati Tuerxun, Takkun Ng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ke Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhaoke@mail.sysu.edu.cn (KZ); Zhup6@mail.sysu.edu.cn (PZ)

Affiliations Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ping Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhaoke@mail.sysu.edu.cn (KZ); Zhup6@mail.sysu.edu.cn (PZ)

Affiliations Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors affirm that they have no known conflicts of interest or personal relationships that could have potentially influenced the work presented in this manuscript.