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I am satisfied with the changes made by the authors. The manuscript can be accepted in its current form.
Accepted
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Revised manuscript is now improved. I do not have further comments.
Revised manuscript is now improved. Raised concerns are answered and modifications are made in manuscript.
In this manuscript, the author ensures careful study planning, sample size and data analysis.
I congratulate authors for a very well executed study. The manuscript has been revised according to the suggestion and comments.
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it was sufficient.
Poor design
weak
The manuscript is well written, I do not have any major comments, however few questions and suggestions i would like to mention.
1. Introduction: line 67-69 - If obesity remains uncontrolled, it can lead to devastating health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. (Provide references here).
2. Introduction: line 70-71- Studies have shown that obesity and dental caries have become common childhood diseases that are affecting the overall health and development of children(Wake et al. 2007). (You mentioned studies, therefore provide few more references here).
3. Methods: Please write full ethical approval reference number and name of the approval authority.
4. Method: How do you manage the dmft/DMFT in mixed dentition which contains both deciduous and permanent teeth in different combinations? It seems that this study analyse the dmft and DMFT separately without considering the mixed dentition.
5. The authors perform regression on DMFT (permanent dentition) alone. How about dmft (deciduous dentition)? The age of the recruited subjects and their number of deciduous/permanent teeth will have impacts on the result and analysis.
6. The discussion seems elaborate and explaining all concerns related to the current evaluation. However, needed to cite few latest studies.
In this manuscript, the author ensures careful study planning, sample size and data analysis.
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