About the Authors

Dan Wang

Affiliations Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Stomatology, Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

James R. Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James J. Cray Jr.

Affiliation Departments of Oral Biology and Orthodontics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Adam A. Kubala

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Melissa A. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Timothy R. Billiar

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gregory M. Cooper

greg.cooper@chp.edu

Affiliations Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Departments of Oral Biology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW TRB GMC. Performed the experiments: DW AAK MAS. Analyzed the data: DW JRG JJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW AAK. Wrote the paper: DW.