Reply to "Comment on Novel attractive forces between ions in quantum plasmas" [arXiv:1212.4286]

We are responding to the comment of Tyshetskiy and Vladimirov [arXiv:1212.4286] on a recently published paper by Shukla and Eliasson [arXiv:1112.5556], regarding the discovery of a novel attractive force on stationary test ion charges of the same sign shielded by degenerate electrons in a dense quantum plasma.