About the Authors

Mingyue Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingyue Li, Jie Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Medicine, Qingdao Huanghai University, Qingdao, Shandong, China, School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Jie Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingyue Li, Jie Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Shuang Xiao

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Xinyang Liu

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Shuai Song

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Xiaoyuan Ye

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Ruonan Bi

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Yuguang Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

gaoyuguang@bzmc.edu.cn (YG); zhangli@bzmc.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Li Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

gaoyuguang@bzmc.edu.cn (YG); zhangli@bzmc.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation School of Stomatology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.