Response to “Comments on ‘Double-Blind Comparison of Ultrasonic and Conventional Osteotomy in Terms of Early Postoperative Edema and Ecchymosis’”

We thank Dr Cağici for his kind thoughts and for commenting¹ on our article.² Dr Cağici is correct that one cannot consider a study as "double-blinded" if both patients and surgeons are not blinded. Unfortunately, Dr Cağici misunderstood in thinking that our surgeon was not blinded. Patients who underwent surgery during odd-numbered months received conventional osteotomy, and patients who underwent surgery during even-numbered months received ultrasonic osteotomy. However, the surgeon was blinded as to which patients were included in the study, which was our randomization method for the surgeon. The patients were also blinded, as they were not informed preoperatively which osteotomy procedure they would undergo.