Infoveillance of COVID-19 Infections in Dentistry Using Platform X: Descriptive Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of dental professionals and patients has been difficult to track and quantify. X (formerly known as Twitter) proved to be a useful infoveillance tool for tracing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the use of X to track COVID-19 infections and deaths associated with dental practices.

Methods

English Tweets reporting infections or deaths associated with the dental practice were collected from January 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021. Tweets were searched manually using the X Pro search engine (previously known as TweetDeck [X Corp], Twitter Inc, and TweetDeck Ltd) and automatically using a tweet crawler on the X Academic Research application programming interf

SUBMITTER: Al-Mansoori A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12006773 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature