Reply to the letter regarding “Chronic mechanical irritation and oral squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis”

Archana A  Gupta; Supriya  Kheur; Saranya  Varadarajan; Sameena  Parveen; Harisha  Dewan; Yaser Ali  Alhazmi; A. Thirumal  Raj; Luca  Testarelli; Shankargouda  Patil

doi:10.17305/bjbms.2021.6006

Authors

Archana A Gupta Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India.
Supriya Kheur Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India.
Saranya Varadarajan Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sri Venkateswara Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India.
Sameena Parveen Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Harisha Dewan Department of Prosthetic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Yaser Ali Alhazmi Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, Division of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
A. Thirumal Raj Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sri Venkateswara Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India.
Luca Testarelli Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Sapienza University, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Shankargouda Patil Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, Division of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17305/bjbms.2021.6006

Keywords:

Oral squamous cell carcinoma, risk factor, differences in risk factors

Abstract

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.