OBJECTIVE Submucosal minimally invasive lingual excision (SMILE) is a novel approach to address hypopharyngeal obstruction. This study compares the efficacy, morbidity, and complications of this technique to radiofrequency reduction of the tongue base (RFBOT), the current standard in minimally invasive tongue base reduction. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data extracted from a prospec...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to discuss some new concepts of the desirable characteristics of smile tooth display. Due to the increasing application of cosmetic dental treatments, there is an increasing need for better understanding of the esthetic principles. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present descriptive study, with 212 participants, included were patients with no histo...

As robot imitation learning is beginning to replace conventional hand-coded approaches in programming robot behaviors, much work is focusing on learning from the actions of demonstrators. We hypothesize that in many situations, procedural tasks can be learned more effectively by observing object behaviors while completely ignoring the demonstrator’s motions. To support studying this hypothesis ...

introduction: the effect of education on esthetic perception is still unclear. this study aims to compare the perception of smile esthetics, under various conditions, among general and specialist dentists. materials and methods: a photograph of a woman’s smile was digitally altered using a software image editing program. alterations were made tothe dental midline, anterior gingival display, buc...

this work aims to extract the mineralogical constituents of the lahroud hyperion scene situated in the nw of iran. like the other push-broom sensors, hyperion images suffer from spectral distortions, namely the smile effect. the corresponding spectral curvature is defined as an across-track wavelength shift from the nominal central wavelength, and alters the pixel spectra. the common “column me...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM In complete mouth reconstructive dentistry, the occlusal vertical dimension may be increased to provide adequate restorative space or to improve esthetics. The effect of increasing the occlusal vertical dimension on the smile is not well understood. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of increasing the occlusal vertical dimension on the dimensions...

PURPOSE To perform a comparative clinical analysis of the safety, efficacy, and predictability of two surgical procedures (ie, small incision lenticule extraction [SMILE] and femtosecond laser-assisted LASIK [FS-LASIK]) to correct myopia. METHODS Sixty eyes of 31 patients with a mean spherical equivalent of -5.13 ± 1.75 diopters underwent myopia correction with the SMILE procedure. Fifty-one ...