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Tube Decompression for Staged Treatment of a Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 76; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.joms.2017.11.044

1531-5053

João Luiz Gomes Carneiro Monteiro, José Alcides Almeida de Arruda, Belmiro Cavalcanti do Egito Vasconcelos,

Oral and gingival health research

Letters to the Editor must be in reference to a specific article or editorial that has been published by the Journal. Letters must be submitted within 6 weeks of the article's print publication or, for an online-only article, within 8 weeks of the date it first appeared online. Letters must be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/joms. Letters are subject to editing and those exceeding 500 words may be shortened or not accepted due to length. One photograph may accompany the letter if it is essential to understanding the subject. Letters should not duplicate similar material or material published elsewhere. There is no guarantee that any letter will be published. Prepublication proofs will not be provided. Submitting a Letter to the Editor constitutes the author's permission for its publication in any issue or edition of the journal, in any form or medium. Our research team read with interest the article published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery entitled “Tube Decompression for Staged Treatment of a Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst—A Case Report” by Emam et al. 1 Emam H.A. Smith J. Briody A. Jatana C.A. Tube decompression for staged treatment of a calcifying odontogenic cyst—A case report. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2017; 75: 1915 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar We would like to congratulate the authors for the well-documented case. Letters to the Editor must be in reference to a specific article or editorial that has been published by the Journal. Letters must be submitted within 6 weeks of the article's print publication or, for an online-only article, within 8 weeks of the date it first appeared online. Letters must be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/joms. Letters are subject to editing and those exceeding 500 words may be shortened or not accepted due to length. One photograph may accompany the letter if it is essential to understanding the subject. Letters should not duplicate similar material or material published elsewhere. There is no guarantee that any letter will be published. Prepublication proofs will not be provided. Submitting a Letter to the Editor constitutes the author's permission for its publication in any issue or edition of the journal, in any form or medium. In ReplyJournal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryVol. 76Issue 4PreviewWe would like to thank the 2 groups of authors for the input in their letters to the editor regarding our recently published case report.1 First, we would like to address the concerns of Souza and Souza that we “missed… information during the literature review” in addition to informing us about previous publications in their letter. Souza and Souza referenced case reports by Sakai et al2 and Kim et al,3 in addition to pointing out their case report published in 2007 in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, entitled “Conservative Treatment of Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst: Report of 3 Cases.”4 We would like Souza and Souza to have comfort that we did not miss these reports in our literature review. Full-Text PDF Regarding “Tube Decompression for Staged Treatment of a Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst—A Case Report”Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryVol. 76Issue 4PreviewWe are writing in response to the article entitled “Tube Decompression for Staged Treatment of a Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst—A Case Report” by Emam et al1 published in the September 2017 issue of the journal. We read with enthusiasm this article, as novel therapies with conservative approaches to lesions previously treated by only resection or even enucleation are always welcome. Full-Text PDF