∗Department of Orthodontics, Hospital of Stomatology, Orofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration Laboratory, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou
†Department of Stomatology, People's Hospital of Langzhong City, Nanchong
‡Department of Stomatology, People's Hospital of Rongchang City, Chongqing, China
§Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
||Department of Oral Science, Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Xiaomei Xu, PhD, Department of Orthodontics, Hospital of Stomatology, Orofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration Laboratory, Southwest Medical University, 2 Jiangyang South Road, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, China; E-mail: [email protected]
Received 13 August, 2019
Accepted 10 October, 2019
BJ and JX contributed equally to the work.
This study was supported by the Project of Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (NO. 2015JY0119), the project of Education Department of Sichuan Province (NO. 16ZA0188), and the Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Luzhou Government and Southwest Medical University (NO. 2016LZXNYD-T0).
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
