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KMID : 0362719960340030208
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Journal of the Korean Dental Association
1996 Volume.34 No. 3 p.208 ~ p.214
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A Study on The Durability of Smile Exercise
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Abstract
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Dr. Gibson developed the smile exercise program in 1989. He argued that the exercises should be done for 3 minutes every day for 30 days. there should be a noticeable difference at the end of 30 days and no further exercising is encouraged or
recommended beyond 30 days.
This study was designed to investigate the durability of smile exercises. The subjects were 29 university students who had unnatural smiles though they had good dentition or well restored teeth. the researchers explained Gibson's smile exercise
method.
The subjects trained their perioral muscles for 4 weeks at home.
Photographs were taken of a full smile at regular intervals. Dbefore smile exercises, 2)after 2 weeks of exercising, 3)4 weeks after exercising, and 4) one year later, after smile exercises had been discontinued.
Esthetic levels of the smile(smile score) were estimated from photographs by 10 appraisers (dentists) and scores were analyzed
@ES The results obtained were as follows:
@EN 1. The smile scores 2 weeks after smile exercises were than those before smile exercises.
2. The smile scores 4 weeks after smile exercises were higher than those 2 weeks after smile exercises.
3. The smile scores 1 years after smile exercises were not different from those before smile exercises.
In our conclusion is that the smile exercise was an effective method to improve esthetic level of the smile. But the smile exercise effect was not durable without continuous smile exercises Persistent motivation and follow-up are important for
successful smile exercises.
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