Evaluation of the shares about Temporomandibular Disorders in social media - Abstract
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are a class of degenerative musculoskeletal conditions associated with morphological and functional deformities.
Clinical signs and symptoms include orofacial pain including joint sounds, limitation of movement or deviation, and cranial and / or muscle pain. Although TMDs
symptoms occur in about 25% of the population, very few individuals consult a specialist for the treatment. Patients are looking for different ways of acquiring
information. One of these methods is social media. New definitions have entered our lives with Instagram. “Hashtag” is one of them that provide a quick link
to related articles, content and videos. The aim of this study was to determine the use of Instagram about TMDs as well as to evaluate the content of the most
frequently viewed video shares related to TMDs using hashtag “#TMJ Disorder”. On December 17, 2019, #TMJ Disorder which is the most shared hash tag
related to TMDs was searched in Instagram. In this study, first 80 video was preferred; but some videos were excluded because of irrelevant (4) and no-English
(8). The remaining 68 video sources are divided into 3 categories by the researcher; Non-professional, Professional and News. “Number of views” is the most in
professionals (10179.7), then the news (9439,5) and nonprofessionals (4385.4) is the least. Although “number of like” is the same ranking (195.7-103.8-62.3),
“number of comment” shows an increase in non-professionals (12.8-7.6-9.2). The content of the videos was also found poor. In addition to treatment-oriented
videos, the number of videos including preventive options should increase.