About the Authors

Jessica A. Scoffield

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dingyu Duan

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Department of Periodontology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Fan Zhu

Current address: Section of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hui Wu

hwu@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JAS DD HW. Data curation: JAS DD. Formal analysis: JAS DD HW. Funding acquisition: JAS HW. Investigation: JAS DD FZ. Methodology: JAS DD HW. Project administration: JAS HW. Resources: JAS DD FZ. Supervision: JAS HW. Validation: JAS DD HW. Visualization: JAS. Writing – original draft: JAS HW. Writing – review & editing: JAS DD FZ HW.