About the Authors

Nader Muthanna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ NM and XG contributed equally to this work and are considered joint first authors.

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Chin, Department of Endodontic, College of Stomatology Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiaoyue Guan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ NM and XG contributed equally to this work and are considered joint first authors.

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Chin, Department of Endodontic, College of Stomatology Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Fouad Alzahrani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Pulp Biology and Endodontic Department, Al-Baha Dental Center, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia

Badr Sultan Saif

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Abdelrahman Seyam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Chin, Department of Endodontic, College of Stomatology Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Ahmed Alsalman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Chin, Department of Endodontic, College of Stomatology Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Ahmed Es Alajami

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oral Preventive, College of Stomatology Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Ang Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drliang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Chin, Department of Periodontology, College of Stomatology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.