About the Authors

Jin Nam

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin Nam, Priyangi Perera

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Affiliation The Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Priyangi Perera

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin Nam, Priyangi Perera

Affiliation The Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jie Liu

Affiliation The Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Bjoern Rath

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

James Deschner

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, University of Köln, Köln, Germany

Robert Gassner

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Innsbruck College of Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria

Timothy A. Butterfield

Affiliation Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Sudha Agarwal

Agarwal.61@osu.edu

Affiliations The Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Orthopedics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JN SA PP. Performed the experiments: JN PP JL BR JD RG TAB. Analyzed the data: JN SA PP. Wrote the paper: JN SA PP JL BR JD RG TAB.