From the *Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 9th People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology; and †School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
Received November 10, 2011.
Accepted for publication February 9, 2012.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Steve G. F. Shen, MD, DDS, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 9th People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai 200011, People’s Republic of China; E-mail: [email protected]
This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 81101131 and no.50935001), the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of MSV, China (no. MSV-2010-08), and the State Plan for High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (no. 2009AA045201).
The authors report no conflicts of interest.