OBJECTIVE To obtain objective average measurements of the profile and frontal facial soft tissue to be used as a guide for aesthetic treatment goals. Methods and Materials : This observational study included 110 females and 130 males high school students aged 16-18 years. None of the subjects had any facial deformities. All of them and their parents gave consent to take part in this study. In e...

the present report describes orthodontic treatment of a patient with skeletal class iii malocclusion and maxillary hypoplasia. to correct the retrusive maxilla, the treatment plan included an intra-oral removable device. it had the advantages of good patient cooperation, ease of construction and effective modification. forward growth of the maxilla, minimal downward and backward rotation of the...

Race categorization of faces is a fast and automatic process and is known to affect further face processing profoundly and at earliest stages. Whether processing of own- and other-race faces might rely on different facial cues, as indicated by diverging viewing behavior, is much under debate. We therefore aimed to investigate two open questions in our study: (1) Do observers consider informatio...

Detection and tracking of face and facial features are the fundamental steps for many applications like Biometrics, human computer interface, video surveillance and expression analysis This paper addresses the challenges in current techniques and presents an adaptive-profile accurate method for facial feature detection and real time tracking. Face and facial features are detected by improved Ac...

The present case report describes the treatment of a 12-year-old boy who had skeletal Class III malocclusion with concave facial profile, hypodivergent facial pattern with anterior cross bite and deep overbite. The treatment plan included rapid palatal expansion with maxillary protraction and fixed edgewise appliance. The results show that anterior cross bite was corrected and facial esthetics ...

Ads that evoke emotions keep us entertained and are more memorable, but do they really drive product sales? To answer this question, we conduct the first large-scale facial coding study to quantitatively measure people’s tacit emotional responses to ads. The high temporal resolution of facial coding yields insights into the emotional profile of a “successful” ad. Facial coding provides evidence...

OBJECTIVE To determine Korean facial profile preferences based on lip position as assessed by Hispanic-Americans of varying western adaptation levels and to determine whether the age and sex of the rater had any influence. METHODS For this study, 132 Hispanic-Americans and 68 Caucasians of varying age, sex and western adaptation levels volunteered to rate their preference of Korean male and f...

Facial harmony is one of the main goals of orthodontic treatment, and it is not always correlated with the attainment of cephalometric objectives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two groups of subjects presenting a clinically balanced soft tissue profile using cephalometric radiographs. Thirty lateral cephalometric radiographs of white females, divided in two groups, one with excellen...

introduction: tessier facial cleft is among the rarest facial clefts reported in literatures and there are many issues arguing about its multidisciplinary repairing techniques. tessier number 4 and 5 are extremely rare facial anomalies. there are few literatures describing these clefts and their surgical modalities. number 5 tessier cleft begins medial to oral commissure in the upper lip and ex...