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Differences in Emotional and Pain-Related Language in Tweets About Dentists and Medical Doctors: Text Analysis of Twitter Content.

Jan-Are Kolset JohnsenTrude B EggesvikThea H RørvikMiriam W HanssenRolf WynnPer Egil Kummervold
Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2019)
The results from this study suggest that stereotypes regarding dentists and dental treatment are spread through social media such as Twitter and that social media also might represent an avenue for improving messaging and disseminating more positive attitudes toward dentists and dental treatment.
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