Yuan, Peng
Mai, Huaming
Li, Jianfu
Ho, Dennis Chun-Yu
Lai, Yingying
Liu, Siting
Kim, Daeseung
Xiong, Zixiang
Alfi, David M.
Teichgraeber, John F.
Gateno, Jaime
Xia, James J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R01DE022676, R01DE022676 (Suppl))
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R01DE021863, R01DE022676 (Renewal))
Article History
Received: 30 December 2016
Accepted: 4 April 2017
First Online: 21 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by our IRB [approval number: IRB(2)1011-0187x]. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Due to the fact that this study only utilized historical data that had been collected as a part of the medical records during the patient care, informed consent is not required.