Omar Alkaradsheh

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine and Periodontology

Objective To examine the content of Instagram posts about oral cancer and assess its usefulness in promoting oral cancer awareness and early detection practices. Methods A systematic search of Instagram for posts about oral (mouth) cancer was conducted using the hashtags #oral cancer and #mouth cancer. Posts usefulness in promoting awareness and e...

This study presents the findings of applying sentiment analysis on a corpus of seven million unique English tweets collected from March 26, 2020 to April 9, 2020 about the COVID-19 outbreak. First, an off-the-shelf lexicon-based sentiment analysis tool was used to determine sentiment polarity in each tweet. Then, an off-the-shelf text visualization...

Objectives To develop a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for binary classification of oral lesions into benign and malignant or potentially malignant using standard real‐time clinical images. Methods A small deep CNN, that uses a pre‐trained EfficientNet‐B0 as a lightweight transfer learning model, was proposed. A dataset of 716...

Introduction Diagnosis of underlying causes for desquamative gingivitis (DG) is often delayed in clinical settings, but little is known about factors influencing its delayed diagnosis. We investigated the diagnostic patterns and associated factors in a cohort of patients presenting primarily with DG. Materials and methods A total of 41 patients pre...

Background: To examine the relative prevalence, types, and clinical features of pigmented lesions of the oral mucosa in 1275 patients attending a university hospital for dental care. Methods: Patients attending dental clinics at The University of Jordan Hospital over a 1-year period were examined for the presence of oral pigmentations. Histopath...

Longitudinal analysis of peri-implant health using resonance frequency analysis -a prospective cohort study

To compare the efficacy of three different antibiotic regimens in reducing early dental implant failure. In a controlled clinical trial, 270 consecutively treated patients were allocated to three antibiotic groups, alternatively, according to order of participation in the trial: Group A (2 g amoxicillin single preoperative dose), Group B (single pr...