About the Authors

Anne Margrete Gussgard

anne.m.gussgard@uit.no

Affiliations Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Andrew J. Hope

Affiliation Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Asbjorn Jokstad

Affiliations Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Howard Tenenbaum

Affiliations Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Dentistry, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Periodontology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Robert Wood

Affiliation Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMG AJH AJ HT RW. Performed the experiments: AMG RW. Analyzed the data: AMG AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMG AJH AJ HT RW. Wrote the paper: AMG AJH AJ HT RW.