About the Authors

Weilin Long

Contributed equally to this work with: Weilin Long, Xiongjun Xu

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

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Xiongjun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weilin Long, Xiongjun Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Li Tang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Hongwei Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

Huangyh48@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YH); jianghw@163.com (HW)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Yihua Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

Huangyh48@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YH); jianghw@163.com (HW)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.