About the Authors

Sho Watanabe

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

Affiliation Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Toshiko Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

toshiko@md.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Center for Education in Medicine and Health Sciences (Dental Education), Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Takayuki Kono

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comprehensive Dental Clinic, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Hiroaki Taketa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comprehensive Dental Clinic, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Noriko Shiotsu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comprehensive Dental Clinic, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Hajime Shirai

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comprehensive Dental Clinic, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Yasuhiro Torii

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Comprehensive Dental Clinic, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.