25-May-2020

Dear Dr Samaranayake,

It is a great pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled "Concerns and Fears of Indian Dentists on professional practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic" in its current form for publication in the journal Oral Diseases.

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Oral Diseases Editorial Office

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Comment:
please also remove the sections along with their titles
Response:
We have removed the sections and headings as per request.

Author response by

Kinariwala, Niraj

Samaranayake, Lakshman Perera

Perera, Irosha

Patel, Zeal

22-May-2020

Dear Dr Samaranayake,

Manuscript ODI-05-20-SC-8330.R1, entitled "Concerns and Fears of Indian Dentists on professional practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic", which you submitted to Oral Diseases, has now been reviewed. The comments of the reviewer(s) are included at the foot of this letter.

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Once again, thank you for submitting your manuscript to Oral Diseases and I look forward to receiving your revision in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Stefano Petti, DMD
Deputy Editor, Oral Diseases
Email: stefano.petti@uniroma1.it

Comments to the Author:
Thanks for your revision, please also remove the sections along with their titles

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Oral Diseases Editorial Office

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Dear Editor,
We have now responded to all three comments.

Q.The manuscript, however, must be edited for English and typos, as some sentences are not clear.
A. The whole MS has been edited for typos and grammar

Q. References throughout the text must follow the Oral Diseases style.
A. Done

Q. As for reference #6, the Authors must report that it is currently a non-peer reviewed preprint publication, unless it will be accepted in these days
A. The Oral Diseases DOI of the reference has been inserted

Author response by

Kinariwala, Niraj

Samaranayake, Lakshman Perera

Perera, Irosha

Patel, Zeal

20-May-2020

Dear Dr Samaranayake,

We recognize that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may affect your ability to return your revised manuscript to us within the requested time frame. If this is the case, please let us know.

Manuscript ODI-05-20-SC-8330, entitled "Concerns and Fears of Indian Dentists on professional practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic", which you submitted to Oral Diseases, has now been reviewed. The comments of the reviewer(s) are included at the foot of this letter.

The reviewer(s) have suggested some major revisions to your manuscript. Therefore, I invite you to respond to the reviewer(s)' comments and revise your manuscript accordingly, if possible within the next 90 days, although there is no guarantee of acceptance of the revised manuscript, i.e., it will need again to go through full peer review.

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You are welcome to send to the editorial office any feedback you may have about the editorial and peer review process.

Once again, thank you for submitting your manuscript to Oral Diseases and I look forward to receiving your revision in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Stefano Petti, DMD
Deputy Editor, Oral Diseases
Email: stefano.petti@uniroma1.it

Associate Editor
Comments to the Author:
(There are no comments.)

Reviewer(s)' Comments to Author:

Reviewer: 1

Comments to the Author
This is an interesting survey in a sample of Indian dentists regarding their awareness and knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The manuscript, however, must be edited for English and typos, as some sentences are not clear. References throughout the text must follow the Oral Diseases style. As for reference #6, the Authors must report that it is currently a non-peer reviewed preprint publication, unless it will be accepted in these days. In this case, the reference must be changed according to the journal that accepted it for publication.
Stefano Petti
Deputy Editor

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