• Friday, December 10, 2010

    Dental Study Proves The Benefits Of A Good Smile

    Dental Study Proves The Benefits Of A Good Smile one of very interesting experiment carried out on behalf of the world's largest dental association has shown that people who have had a smile makeover are reaping the benefits. The experiment revealed that makeover patients had greater self esteem and looked a lot better which has a big impact on how people perceive themselves as well as how people are perceived by others. The effect of this is that people will experience a boost in their personal and professional lives.

    Dental Study Proves The Benefits Of A Good Smile from Dr Anne Beall conducted the experiment on behalf of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) and 528 Americans were asked to judge pictures of 8 people who had undergone cosmetic dental treatment. Judgements had to be made on ten different categories including such things as popularity with the opposite sex, happiness, intelligence etc

    The way the experiment was conducted was as follows. Two sets of photos were created of each patient showing them before they had undergone treatment and after the treatment had taken place. Sat A of the photos were shown to half the participants and the other half were shown set B. Of the 8 patients, half had undergone major dental treatment, and the other half had had moderate to mild treatment done to improve their smile.


    Each of the smile makeover patients had no visible dental defects before the treatment was carried out on them. In addition the participants of the survey were told not to make judgements according to the quality of teeth on display but instead to make snap judgements on what they thought of each according to ten different criteria, marking each out of ten for each category. The average 'before' and 'after' scores were then compared.

    The experiment gave some extremely interesting results. The categories where the difference in scores was greatest were in the attractiveness, popularity with the opposite sex, wealth and success categories. The average 'before' and 'after' scores were also statistically significant in all 10 categories. Of the findings, one leading dentist Essex said:

    "To have large gains in how successful, intelligent, interesting and wealthy patients appeared after cosmetic dentistry caught even us by surprise. We've been telling people that a beautiful smile was a great investment in their futures. Now we have independent evidence."




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