A Repeatable and Reproducible Digital Method to Quantify the Cement Excess and Enamel Loss after Debonding Lingual Multibracket Appliance Therapy
, Adrián Curto 2, Jorge Alonso Pérez-Barquero 3, Clara Guinot-Barona 4,* and Álvaro Zubizarreta-Macho 5Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This paper is focused on present a novel technique to identify debonding problems in lingual brackets. The proposed technique has some limitations, but can be useful in some critical cases. Please see my detailed comments below.
English style and grammar must be reviewed.
Abstract
The results are not clearly presented.
Introduction
-Why this technique is so relevant and who can use it? This information is not clear.
Methods
-What is the justification for this sample size?
-How this protocol was established? Is it follows a previous published paper?
Results
-Please eliminate figure 10/13. It presents the same info displayed on table 1/2.
-Figure 12 and 15 could be added as an appendix.
Discussion
-Limiations were not discussed.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors compliments for this interesting paper, very actual.
I Have some doubts:
1) you use only one technique for bonding the brackets, it would have been much more interesting to compare with other adhesives and composites
2)You only use one scanner, why don't you test at least one other scanner here too?
3)you say that "the results show that morphometry measurement technique is a reproducible, repeatable and accurate method" but I think that comparing these results with a scanning electron microscope analysis would have provided more correct data.
since it is an in vitro study do you think you can scan the electronic microscope to better analyze what happens to the enamel after debonding and if the results are comparable to that of the intraoral scanner?
