About the Authors

Aki Sasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Aki Sasaki, Daisuke Takeda, Hotaka Kawai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Daisuke Takeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Aki Sasaki, Daisuke Takeda, Hotaka Kawai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Hotaka Kawai

Contributed equally to this work with: Aki Sasaki, Daisuke Takeda, Hotaka Kawai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Yoshiaki Tadokoro

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Aki Murakami

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Nanae Yatagai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Satomi Arimoto

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Hitoshi Nagatsuka

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Masaya Akashi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Takumi Hasegawa

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

hasetaku@med.kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.