title: Response to Letter to the Editor, "Directed Acyclic Graphs for Oral Disease Research".
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Department of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Akinkugbe
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ohrbach
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA gary_slade@unc.edu.
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Slade
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Poole
mesh_terms: D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases