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. 2022 Oct;46(5):2273-2279.
doi: 10.1007/s00266-022-02808-8. Epub 2022 Feb 24.

Applying Machine Learning to Determine Popular Patient Questions About Mentoplasty on Social Media

Rushi Patel  1 , Christopher C Tseng  1 , Hannaan S Choudhry  1 , Mehdi S Lemdani  1 , Guy Talmor  1 , Boris Paskhover  2
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Applying Machine Learning to Determine Popular Patient Questions About Mentoplasty on Social Media

Rushi Patel et al. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Purpose: Patient satisfaction in esthetic surgery often necessitates synergy between patient and physician goals. The authors aim to characterize patient questions before and after mentoplasty to reflect the patient perspective and enhance the physician-patient relationship.

Methods: Mentoplasty reviews were gathered from Realself.com using an automated web crawler. Questions were defined as preoperative or postoperative. Each question was reviewed and characterized by the authors into general categories to best reflect the overall theme of the question. A machine learning approach was utilized to create a list of the most common patient questions, asked both preoperatively and postoperatively.

Results: A total of 2,012 questions were collected. Of these, 1,708 (84.9%) and 304 (15.1%) preoperative and postoperative questions, respectively. The primary category for patients preoperatively was "eligibility for surgery" (86.3%), followed by "surgical techniques and logistics" (5.4%) and "cost" (5.4%). Of the postoperative questions, the most common questions were about "options to revise surgery" (44.1%), "symptoms after surgery" (27.0%), and "appearance" (26.3%). Our machine learning approach generated the 10 most common pre- and postoperative questions about mentoplasty. The majority of preoperative questions dealt with potential surgical indications, while most postoperative questions principally addressed appearance.

Conclusions: The majority of mentoplasty patient questions were preoperative and asked about eligibility of surgery. Our study also found a significant proportion of postoperative questions inquired about revision, suggesting a small but nontrivial subset of patients highly dissatisfied with their results. Our 10 most common preoperative and postoperative question handout can help better inform physicians about the patient perspective on mentoplasty throughout their surgical course. Level of Evidence V This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Keywords: Facial plastic surgery; Mentoplasty; Patient questions; Social media.

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