About the Authors

Sang-Im Lee

Affiliation Department of Dental Hygiene, School of Health Sciences, Dankook University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea

Jin-Kyu Yi

Affiliation Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Won-Jung Bae

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Research Center for Tooth and Periodontal Regeneration (MRC), School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Soojung Lee

Affiliation Department of Oral Physiology, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hee-Jae Cha

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Genetics, College of Medicine, Kosin University Busan, Republic of Korea

Eun-Cheol Kim

eckim@khu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Research Center for Tooth and Periodontal Regeneration (MRC), School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJC ECK. Performed the experiments: SIL WJB. Analyzed the data: SIL SJL ECK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKY SJL HJC. Wrote the paper: SIL ECK.