What do TikTok videos offer us about dental implants treatment?

Instagram, a source of information and education about dental implants?

PURPOSE

The study assesses the teaching effect of social media on the topic of dental implants.

METHODS

A sample of 400 Instagram posts were collected, 100 each for one of the following hashtags #dentalimplants, #implantdentisitry, #implantsurgery and #implantology. They were examined regarding their likes, comments, author (dentist or practice or clinic, dental technician, company, Instagram page, patient), gender, form of presentation (image + text, video, text, image) and purpose of the post. Afterwards all posts were divided into "excellent", "good", "moderate" and "poor" teaching effect regarding dental implantology by 6 different evaluators with different levels of training in dentistry. 400 Instagram posts were collected, each with hashtags related to dental implants, analyzed over a year.

RESULTS

Men authored 48.5% of the posts, women 21.75%, and posts of unknown gender 29.75%. Images were the most common post format at 69.75%, while texts were the least at 0.75%. Dentists posted most frequently (76.5%), followed by dental technicians (11.5%), with educational posts (9.5%) being the least common purpose. Additionally, the evaluation of educational quality by six assessors showed that poor ratings were most common (76.7%), while excellent ratings were the least frequent (3.3%).

CONCLUSION

Currently, social media cannot be used to obtain quality information about dental implants. Nevertheless, social media as an information platform about health-related topics continues to grow and has an increasingly important role in the lives of patients and professionals.

Reliability and Educational Suitability of TikTok Videos as a Source of Information on Sleep and Awake Bruxism: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

BACKGROUND

TikTok contains many videos about bruxism that may help raise the level of awareness on the topic. However, the quality of these videos' information represents the greatest concern.

OBJECTIVE

The present cross-sectional analysis aimed to systematically assess the reliability and educational suitability of TikTok videos as a source of information on bruxism.

METHODS

TikTok was searched for relevant videos uploaded until 6 March 2024, using the hashtags #bruxism, #grindingteeth and #jawclenching. Independent pre-calibrated operators conducted video inclusion and data collection, noting videos' characteristics, source, popularity, content, reliability (assessed through the DISCERN scoring system) and educational value (assessed through the Global Quality Score [GQS]). The Kruskal-Wallis test was adopted to compare videos from different sources. Videos with low and high educational value were compared using the Mann-Whitney U-test. Tests were considered significant when the p-value was < 0.05.

RESULTS

A total of 105 bruxism videos were analysed. Most videos covered bruxism management and clinical features, and more than 60% were uploaded by healthcare professionals. According to the DISCERN and GQS scoring, the videos' reliability and educational value were judged to be very poor and low, respectively, but on average they were higher for videos uploaded by healthcare professionals compared to those uploaded by laypeople. When comparing videos with high educational value to those with low educational value, differences were found in popularity, content and reliability.

CONCLUSION

The present results suggest the need for greater control of information disseminated on social media to fulfil its potential role in educating laypeople about bruxism.

How much information regarding gingival enlargement can we get from TikTok and YouTube?

AIMS

This study aimed to evaluate and compare the reliability and quality of the information about gingival enlargements on YouTube and TikTok.

METHODS

Two popular video sites, YouTube and TikTok, were searched for gingival enlargement and gingival hyperplasia. The reliability and quality of the first 300 videos for each search term, which is 1200 videos in total, were evaluated by social media video content evaluation tools: Global Quality Score (GQS) for quality and modified DISCERN for reliability.

RESULTS

Health professionals uploaded 68.6% of the videos on YouTube and 54.5% on TikTok. It was observed that 50% of TikTok videos and 65.9% of YouTube videos were educational. In terms of quality, 2.7% of the videos on YouTube are of excellent quality, while in TikTok there are no videos of perfect quality. TikTok videos had considerably more views, likes, viewing rates, and interaction index scores than YouTube videos (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONS

The videos and pieces of information on YouTube are more reliable and accurate in terms of gingival enlargement when compared to TikTok. Nevertheless, it was discovered that videos on both platforms were of poor reliability and quality in general.