逐点回复《Clinical Oral Investigations》编辑审稿意见

Dear Dr. Wu,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Clinical Oral Investigations. We appreciate the effort you have put into revising your submission. However, after reviewing the revised manuscript, we regret to inform you that some of the requested changes have not been addressed. If these amendments are not made within the next three days, we will have to withdraw your submission.

Please find below a point-by-point response to the reviewers' and editors' comments:

1. The position of Figure Citation (Fig. 7) is not defined in the manuscript. Please check.

Response: We apologize for the oversight. The position of Figure Citation (Fig. 7) has now been defined in the manuscript.

2. Figures 5 and 6 are missing. Please check.

Response: We apologize for the missing figures. Figures 5 and 6 have been included in the revised manuscript.

3. Declarations Section: As a part of the journal requirements, we urge the submitting authors to include the following declaration statement/s to be part of the main manuscript. Please create a separate section entitled 'Declarations Section.' This section shall compile all relevant disclosure statements and must be included in the manuscript before the paper undergoes the peer-review process.

Please note that the 'Declarations Section' should be placed before the reference section of the manuscript. If the statement is not applicable, please state 'Not Applicable' on each subheading.

A. Author Contribution: We noticed that the Author Contribution of the study is missing for all the given authors in the manuscript main text. Kindly provide a detailed Author Contributions for every single author of the study, stating their significant contribution to the completion of the manuscript.

Please place the section 'Author Contributions' before the references section of the manuscript.

B. Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate: Please confirm whether the informed consent obtained from study participants was written or verbal and clearly state this in your manuscript in the 'Ethics and consent to participate' subsection of the manuscript. If verbal, please state the reason and whether the ethics committee approved this procedure. If the need for consent was waived by an IRB or is deemed unnecessary according to national regulations, please clearly state this, including the name of the IRB or a reference to the relevant legislation. If there's no need for consent to participate in your scientific article, please indicate 'Not Applicable' in this section.

Please place the Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate statement before the references section of the main manuscript file.

C. Funding: We note that you have not included a 'Funding' section in the main manuscript file. All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared. If no funding was obtained for your study, we still require this section to be included with the statement 'No funding was obtained for this study.'

Please place the funding subheading and statement before the references section of the main manuscript file.

D. Conflict of Interests: Please declare any financial and non-financial conflicts of interest under the heading 'Conflict of Interests' in the main manuscript file before the references section.

Please place the Conflict of Interest subheading and statement before the References section of the manuscript.

We kindly ask you to carefully make these amendments before selecting the 'Submit manuscript' button on the 'Review' page. Please avoid making any other changes to your manuscript.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Kind regards,

Borge

Boy George Miranda (he/his/him) JEO Assistant Journals Editorial Office (JEO)