Bimaxillary Distalization with Skeletal Anchorage for Management of Severe Skeletal Class III Open Bite Malocclusion

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Author,

Aim of this study was to  present a camouflage treatment option for Class III adult patient having open bite in the anteriors, and upper anterior crowding. More in detail, four mini-plates were placed in the maxilla and mandible for distalizing the upper and lower dentition after removal of all the third molars to relieve the maxillary crowding, establishing Angle’s class I malocclusion and obtaining ideal overbite and overjet. 

I would like to congratulate to the author and to thank him for this valid article. I am really impressed with its values, preparation etc. 

 

The study is of scientific interest and in line with the aims of the journal. 

However, there are some issues that should be addressed.

 

Abstract

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Introduction

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-       Line 25: “(Staudt et al., 2009; Hamamci et al., 2006)”, please remove in all the text. References should be reported as number in square brackets.

 

Diagnosis and Etiology

In my opinion it was very important to report that the most widely used methods to assess skeletal maturation, as the hand and wrist rx as gold standard, and the CVM by Baccetti. Two systematic reviews were conducted on this topic in the last years, and authors concluded that the CVM method shows a high level of correlation with the HWM method. Please refer to and cite: Szemraj et al. Is the cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) method effective enough to replace the hand-wrist maturation (HWM) method in determining skeletal maturation?-A systematic review. Eur J Radiol. 2018 May;102:125-128. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.03.012. and Ferrillo et al. Reliability of cervical vertebral maturation compared to hand-wrist for skeletal maturation assessment in growing subjects: A systematic review. J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil. 2021;34(6):925-936. doi: 10.3233/BMR-210003.

 

 

References were well written.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Introduction

Analyze these two important references about

the characteristics and changes in mandibular condylar motion in patients with skeletal Class III malocclusion.

Ugolini A, Mapelli A, Segù M, Zago M, Codari M, Sforza C. Three-dimensional mandibular motion in skeletal Class III patients. Cranio. 2018 Mar;36(2):113-120.

Ugolini A, Mapelli A, Segù M, Galante D, Sidequersky FV, Sforza C. Kinematic analysis of mandibular motion before and after orthognathic surgery for skeletal Class III malocclusion: A pilot study. Cranio. 2017 Mar;35(2):94-100. 

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Did you obtain by your patient to publish his pictures, his face and medical history?

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Authors modified the text according to the suggestions.

I found this work impactful and fit well with in the scope of this journal.

In my opinion, it is suitable for publication.