Open AccessReply to the letter regarding “Chronic mechanical irritation and oral squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis”
Author(s) -
Archana Gupta,
Supriya Kheur,
Saranya Varadarajan,
Sameena Parveen,
Harisha Dewan,
Yaser Ali Alhazmi,
A. Thirumal Raj,
Luca Testarelli,
Shankargouda Patil
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bosnian journal of basic medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1840-4812
pISSN - 1512-8601
DOI - 10.17305/bjbms.2021.6006
Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , basal cell , population , irritation , systematic review , dermatology , medline , pathology , immunology , environmental health , political science , law
Dear Editor,
We thank Dr. Jian Xie for the valuable inputs on our paper titled ‘Chronic mechanical irritation and oral squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis [1].’ The first concern of Dr. Xie was that we had included two studies that were based on the same population. We re-examined these papers, one was published in 2010 [2] and the other in 2017 [3] by the same group of authors. Given the significant time difference between the two papers, we did not want to presume they were from the same sample population. There is no clear evidence that they are from the same sample population.
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