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Founder smiles increase investor trust and funding [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Entrepreneurs seeking funding increasingly present themselves to investors for the first time online. In these digital first impressions, some entrepreneurs smile while others do not.
Dimosthenis Stefanidis, Nicos Nicolaou, Scott Shane, Mark Conley, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos   +5 more
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The influence of repeated frowning and smiling on corrugator muscle activity and wrinkles between eyebrows [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Like the lines themselves, concerns about facial wrinkles, particularly glabellar lines - the prominent furrows between the eyebrows - intensify with age.
Shuntaro Okazaki, Makito Suzuki, Keith Kawabata Duncan   +2 more
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Which emoji are markers of sarcasm among Chinese teenagers using the WeChat app? [PDF]

Heliyon
This study explored emoji-based sarcastic statements made by Chinese teenagers using the WeChat app. Two experiments (N = 597) were conducted to investigate both language production and comprehension.
Jing Cui, Yu R. Dandan, Bo Yang, Youping Jing   +3 more
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Lip repositioning, a solution for gummy smile

Frontiers in Dentistry, 2021
For many years oral esthetic problems treated by dentists were limited to those involving the teeth without giving consideration to the gingiva. However, today it is well established that these structures should be in balance to appear esthetically ...
Pardis Haddadi, Hadi Zare, Ali Azadikhah
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Patients’ Satisfaction of Smile Line Beauty after Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery [PDF]

Journal of Dental Materials and Techniques, 2021
Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess various smile line problems and treatments and to assess the patients’ satisfaction after treatment. Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed patients who had smile line problems.
Reza Tabrizi, Masih Lazar, Navid Ahmadi
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Role of dental training and distance of the observer on the perception of apically shifted gingival margin with increased vertical tooth size in the esthetic zone

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2023
Objectives To evaluate the influence of the gingival contour on the smile esthetics. The influence of size, symmetry, teeth involved in apically shifted gingival margins, and the distance and clinical training of the observer were investigated. Materials
Marco Montevecchi, Fabio Paolo Desimini, Nicola Sforza, Simone Bagattoni, Gabriela Piana   +4 more
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Effectiveness of lip repositioning in the treatment of excessive gingival display: systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Oral Research, 2023
Background: The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to answer the questions ‘’Does lip repositioning surgery reduce the amount of gingiva exposed in the smile in individuals with excessive gingival display EGD (excessive gingival ...
Juliana Couto e Silva, Lucas Guimarães Abreu, Fabiano Araújo Cunha, Bárbara Lopes Freire, Rafael Paschoal Esteves Lima   +4 more
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Smile Aesthetic Evaluation on Videographs: An Intra-Rater and Inter-Rater Agreement Study

Dentistry Journal, 2022
The aim of this study was to assess on videographs the intra- and inter-rater reproducibility of the Smile Esthetic Index (SEI) that has been previously validated on photographs.
Mathias Faure-Brac, Angéline Antezack, Sebastien Melloul, Mehdi Hadj Saïd, Anne Raskin, Virginie Monnet-Corti   +5 more
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Thoughts on the usage of audible smiling in speech synthesis applications

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022
In this perspective paper we explore the question how audible smiling can be integrated in speech synthesis applications. In human-human communication, smiling can serve various functions, such as signaling politeness or as a marker of trustworthiness ...
Jürgen Trouvain, Benjamin Weiss
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Robustness of the aging effect of smiling against vertical facial orientation [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2022
Background: Previous studies have shown that the association between smiling and youth is a misconception; smiling faces have been estimated to be older than neutral faces. Previous studies have indicated that this aging effect of smiling (AES) is due to
Kyoshiro Sasaki, Fumiya Yonemitsu, Naoto Yoshimura, Yuki Yamada   +3 more
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