About the Authors

Levi Matthies

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

l.matthies@uke.de

Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Mildred Scheel Cancer Career Center HaTriCS4, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hendrik Amir-Kabirian

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Medhanie T. Gebrekidan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources‘ Process Engineering, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

Andreas S. Braeuer

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources‘ Process Engineering, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

Ulrike S. Speth

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ralf Smeets

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Division of “Regenerative Orofacial Medicine”, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Hagel

Roles Validation

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Gosau

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Knipfer

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Knipfer, Reinhard E. Friedrich

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Reinhard E. Friedrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Knipfer, Reinhard E. Friedrich

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.