YouTube™ and oral lichen planus: an appraisal of the educational quality of information

Does YouTube™ provide reliable information on oral candidiasis?

“…In the literature, there are studies that analyze the quality and viewing data of videos about various lesions in the oral region uploaded to YouTube. Some of these are about oral leukoplakia (Kovalski et al, 2019), oral cancers and precancerous lesions (Gulve et al, 2022), and lichen lesions (Morais et al, 2020; Romano et al, 2021), but as far as we noticed as a result of the literature review, this is the first study analyzing the videos uploaded to YouTube about oral candida lesions.…”

“…In recent times, several studies have assessed the quality of YouTube™ videos on various health topics, like Sjögren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, anorexia, burning mouth syndrome, oral lichen planus, leukoplakia, oral cancer, and Alzheimer's disease (Delli et al, 2016; Fortuna et al, 2019; Hassona et al, 2016; Kovalski et al, 2019; Morais et al, 2020; Singh et al, 2012; Syed‐Abdul et al, 2013; Tang et al, 2017).…”

YoutubeTM Content Analysis as a Means of Information in Oral Medicine: A Systematic Review of the Literature

“…Oral diseases represent high-trend topics for users, so that a Youtube TM query returns a large number of inherent items; nevertheless, visibility and popularity never match with valuable information [33]. The qualitative assessment of the video content is not widely homogeneous in the use of the interpretative tools: the majority of studies applied more than one tool, the most utilized ones being DISCERN [30,32,36,38] and usefulness score [30,31,35,37,39] (5 studies out of 10). Website scientific content evaluation still remains a demanding task; however, despite the assessment heterogeneity, the overall evaluation of the content quality of results is really poor, such that all included studies suggest implementation of scientific content or accurate reviews by experts in the field [33].…”

“…This systematic review aimed to summarize and highlight major web-disseminated oral health content retrieved on the Youtube TM platform. Healthcare professionals should protect this knowledge and manage all the necessary instruments to improve web-based dissemination, in order to properly address patients' issues about diagnosis and therapeutical pathways [35]. The main study limitations seem to be the disagreements in data extraction based on the different parameters used to analyze the content, and the unsuitability of a huge amount of non-English language video content.…”

“…OLP is one of the most common disorders affecting oral mucosa [34]. Morais et al [35] evaluated the sample obtained searching the keywords "lichen planus", "oral lichen planus" and the corresponding keywords in Portuguese and Spanish. From the 481 videos, only 37 videos were included in the statistical analysis.…”