About the Authors

Lu Feng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of stomatology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan, China

Xi Zhao

Roles Resources

& These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of stomatology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan, China

Bo Zheng

Roles Software

& These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of stomatology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan, China

Dingming Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cariology and Endodontics, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Lan Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

zlnancy914@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Cariology and Endodontics, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

all authors have declared that no competing interests exist.