Global Search Trends of Oral Problems using Google Trends from 2004 to 2016: An Exploratory Analysis

Patthi, Basavaraj; Kumar, Jitendra; Singla, Ashish; Gupta, Ritu; Prasad, M. V. R.; Ali, Irfan; Dhama, Kuldeep; Niraj, Lav Kumar

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2017/26658.10564

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“…Assessing CSB online tools has been a topic of interest in the previous years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic [12,13]. While knowing the critical impacts of oral health status on the daily life of every individual, people have been increasingly searching about oral diseases [14][15][16]. The way people seek information via Google using various keywords is an implicit exhibition of their online CSB.…”

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Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Sofi‐Mahmudi¹,

Shamsoddin²,

Ghasemi

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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Background Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has impacted populations in many ways worldwide, including access to oral health services. This study aims to assess the association between lockdown due to COVID-19 and online searches for toothache in Iran using Google Trends (GT). Methods We investigated GT online searches for toothache within the past five years. The time frame for data gathering was considered as the initiation and end dates of the national lockdown in Iran. We performed one-way ANOVA statistical test to compare relative search volumes (RSVs) between the year 2020 and 2016–2019 for the whole country. Then we investigated the possible association of RSVs in provinces with dentists’ density, prevalence of current daily smokers, Human Development Index (HDI), Internet access, and fluoride concentration in water using linear regression. Results When comparing 2020 with the previous four years, there was a rise of 2020 RSVs versus all previous years combined and each year (P < 0.001 for all of them). In the linear model for the year 2020, HDI (B = − 3.29, 95% CI: (− 5.80, − 0.78), P = 0.012) had a strong negative relationship with provincial RSVs. HDI mostly had strong positive relationship with provincial RSVs in prior years. Fluoride concentration (B = − 0.13, 95% CI: (− 0.24, − 0.03), P = 0.017) and dentists’ density (B = − 0.04, 95% CI: (− 0.25, 0.17), P = 0.669) were also negatively associated with RSVs in 2020. These associations were mostly negative in the previous years as well. Internet access (B = 0.36, 95% CI: (− 0.38, 1.09), P = 0.325) and prevalence of daily smokers (B = 0.33, 95% CI: (0.13, 0.53), P = 0.002) were positively associated with RSVs. Conclusion The RSVs for toothache in 2020 have increased due to COVID-19-imposed lockdown compared with the same period in the past four years. This increase was related to socioeconomic factors.

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Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Sofi‐Mahmudi¹,

Shamsoddin²,

Ghasemi

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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“…Dental caries and periodontal disease have been noted as frequent outpatient disease for many years. The results for the global epidemiology and the global search trends of oral problems using Google Trends show that the prevalence of dental caries and severe periodontitis is also very high and steadily increasing, making it the most common disease affecting humans worldwide (Frencken et al, 2017; Patthi et al, 2017).…”

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Cytotoxicity of dental disclosing solution on gingival epithelial cells in vitro

Jung

Yeon²,

Song

et al. 2020

Clinical & Exp Dental Res

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Objective: Coloring dental biofilm and plaque with a dental disclosing solution is visually effective in dental treatment and oral hygiene education. Despite continuous reports of the risk of the product ingredients, dental disclosing solution are widely used in dentistry. However, the cytotoxic mechanism of dental disclosing solution is not known. Here we elucidated the tissue dyeing range and investigated the cytotoxic mechanism of dental disclosing solution. Materials and methods: Gingival epithelial cells and mouse head and neck tissue were stained with dental disclosing solution. Changes in the cell cycle distribution by the dental disclosing solution treatment were analyzed. A deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick and labeling (TUNEL) assay was performed to examine the apoptotic features of the gingival epithelial cells. Results: Dental disclosing solution stained the chromosome strongly, as well as both the hard and soft tissue of the mouse head and neck. The results of flow cytometric analysis and TUNEL analyses revealed that the cytotoxicity associated with dental disclosing solution was related to the induction of apoptosis. However, the staining of porcine skin by dental disclosing solution was not easily removed, even with a wide range of pH solutions. Conclusions: These results suggest that dental disclosing solution had strong cytotoxicity and safer alternatives are needed.

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“…Internet search trends have been shown to show epidemiologic prevalence and forecast new incidence of disease conditions. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Other than Google 20 that comprises 70% of the search industry, Facebook 24 and Twitter 25 have been data mined in the past.…”

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Spatio-temporal Differences in the Filipinos’ Search Trends for Toothache and Milk Tea

Dalanon¹,

Diano²,

Matsuka³

2021

Acta Med Philipp

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Background. Since 1987, data regarding dental caries prevalence in the Philippines has been shown to be over 90%. Objective. This study compared the trends of Filipino web searches regarding toothache and milk tea from 2017 to2019 through spatio-temporal analyses. Methods. Google Trends searches for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 were done using three separate search queries using the parameters "toothache" (TA) and "milk tea" (MT) as search terms, Philippines as location, Health as category, and Web Search as database. Results. The outcome showed a decreasing trend in searches for toothache and an increasing interest for milk tea web searches from 2017 to 2019. A multiple comparison test showed that searches for MT were significantly more than TA in 2017 (p<0.001), 2018 (p<0.001), and 2019 (p<0.001). Searches for TA during the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th quarter compared to the 1 st quarter of the year, in Caraga, Eastern Visayas, Western Visayas and Zamboanga Peninsula compared to Manila, were found to be significantly high. Conclusion. Filipinos' health-seeking behavior show decreasing interest towards TA and increasing for MT.

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Global Search Trends of Oral Problems using Google Trends from 2004 to 2016: An Exploratory Analysis

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Cytotoxicity of dental disclosing solution on gingival epithelial cells in vitro

Spatio-temporal Differences in the Filipinos’ Search Trends for Toothache and Milk Tea

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