• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.473-479
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• 2008

Asians tend to have prominent mandibular angle. The causes of wide lower third of the facial contour are obtuse mandibular angle and hypertrophy of masseter muscles. In cases of hypertrophy of masseter muscles, conventional treatment intends to the contraction of masseter muscle. Recently, volumetric reduction of masseter muscles using botulinum toxin type A injection and radiofrequency (RF) reduction have been introduced. The use of RF energy for masseter muscle reduction is known as a safe, simple, and effective method for aesthetic lower facial contouring. The purpose of this study is to present the effects of RF reduction applied to hypertrophy of masseter muscles, to review and to encourage RF practices in oral and maxillofacial region.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 1987

The aim of this study was to clarify whether bonding/debonding procedure will affect the occurance of enamel crack. The frequency of enamel crack was compared between before-bonding and after-debonding on 200 human extracted teeth. Each facial surface of the tooth was divided in 9 fragments. A presence of crack, which was classified by its direction as vertical, horizontal and oblique crack, was surveyed in each fragment. Number of all cracks in facial surface was 1355 at before-bonding, and 1605 at after-debonding, so it revealed significant increase rate of $18.5\%$, but compared by fragment, cracks were significantly Increased in OC, OD, CC and GC fragments. All kinds of cracks were significantly increased, especially increase rate of oblique crack reached $54.9\%$. The increase rate of cracks was not superior at any fragment or region, but some evidence was seen in CC fragment. Judging from the above, increase of crack is unavoidable with bonding/debonding procedures.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.438-441
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• 2001

This paper describes a system for tracking a face in a input video sequence using facial convex hull based facial segmentation and a robust hausdorff distance. The algorithm adapts YCbCr color model for classifying face region by [l]. Then, we obtain an initial face model with preprocessing and convex hull. For tracking, a Robust Hausdorff distance is computed and the best possible displacement is selected. Finally, the previous face model is updated using the displacement t. It is robust to some noises and outliers. We provide an example to illustrate the proposed tracking algorithm in video sequences obtained from CCD camera.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.26-31
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• 1975

The author observed a rare case of fibrous dysplasia in 12years old female who came to the Infirmary of Dental College, Seoul National University, complaining of facial asymmetry at 3 years' duration in right maxilla-facial region. The serial radiograms has been taken and the nature of the ]esion established as a typical fibrous dysplasia according to the interpreted findings in their images. The author has obtaind the results as follows: 1. Fibrous dysplasia occured at 3 years of age in this case. 2. Familial tendency, traumatic history and endocrine. disturbances: were: not noted in this patient. 3. The serial radiograms revealed a typical fibrous dysplasia encroaching Tight zygomatic bone.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.783-786
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• 2013

For years, the gold standard in facial rejuvenation has been the face lift. However, exploring new, less complex procedures for achieving the same goal is currently drawing interest. Rejuvenation of the perioral area is a difficult task for plastic surgeons because of the minimal effect that face lift procedures have over this region and the lack of published material on the subject. In this article, the descended mouth corner anguloplasty technique is presented. It is a 20-minutes lift technique that can correct this typical feature of the ageing mouth. The authors have treated 71 patients using the technique with consistently good results, with just one requiring revision. They conclude that this procedure by itself and in combination with other small operations or even a full face lift can rejuvenate the ageing face.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.422-425
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• 2012

Osteoma is one of the most common tumors of the cranial vault and the facial skeleton. For osteoma in the facial region, endoscopic resection is widely used to prevent surgical scarring. Tumors in a total of 14 patients were resected using an endoscopic holmium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Ho:YAG) laser with a long flexible fiber. Aside from having the advantage of not leaving a scar due to the use of endoscopy, this procedure allowed resection at any position, was minimally invasive, and caused less postoperative pain. This method yielded excellent cosmetic results, so the endoscopic Ho:YAG laser is expected to emerge as a good treatment option for osteoma.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.592-594
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• 2002

얼굴 영역 검출의 수행 방법으로 개선된 얼굴 칼라 히스토그램과 에지 정보를 결합한 검출 시스템을 제안한다. 배경이 복잡한 영상에서 사람의 얼굴 영역과 배경 영역이 얼굴 영역과 비슷한 칼라 분포를 가지는 물체를 포함하는 영상이더라도 강인한 추출이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 얼굴 검출을 위하여 얼굴의 칼라 분포를 얼굴 칼라의 확률 히스토그램으로 모델링하고 에지 정보와 reconstruction에 의한 형태학적 필터링(morphological filtering)을 적용하여 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 후보 영역에서 얼굴 구성 요소간의 위치 관계를 이용하여 눈동자와 흰자위의 명도차 특성으로 눈 영역의 위치를 추정하고 상대적인 위치 관계로 입 영역을 추정하여 얼굴 구성 요소의 정보를 얻어서이 요소 정보가 존재하는 후보 영역들이 최종적으로 얼굴 영역으로 판단되어 검출된다. 제안한 방법을 여러 영상에 이용하여 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-27
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• 1972

A roentgenographic cephalometric study was made on the soft and hard tissue profile of Korean adults. The subject consisted of 52 males and 54 females from 17 to 22 years of age and with normal occlusion and acceptable profile. Twenty one landmarks were plotted and two oriented lines named SnH line and SnV line were drawn on the tracings of all cephalograms. The means and the standard deviations from the subjects were calculated in each measuring category and the means were compared with those of male and femal samples. The results were obtained as follow: 1. In depth and height, individual variations and sex differences of the lower facial profile were larger than the upper face. 2. The sex differences of upper facial profile were larger in height than depth. 3. The individual variations and sex differences of the top of nose were the smallest in all measuring points. 4. The thickness of the soft tissue of upper face and upper lip in male sample were larger than those of female, but the same matter were not found in mental region.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2003

This paper describes a system for tracking multiple faces in an input video sequence using facial convex hull based facial segmentation and robust hausdorff distance. The algorithm adapts skin color reference map in YCbCr color space and hair color reference map in RGB color space for classifying face region. Then, we obtain an initial face model with preprocessing and convex hull. For tracking, this algorithm computes displacement of the point set between frames using a robust hausdorff distance and the best possible displacement is selected. Finally, the initial face model is updated using the displacement. We provide an example to illustrate the proposed tracking algorithm, which efficiently tracks rotating and zooming faces as well as existing multiple faces in video sequences obtained from CCD camera.

• Archives of Craniofacial Surgery
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.287-291
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• 2017

Preauricular sinus is a congenital malformation that is very commonly encountered among the general population and it has especially high prevalence among Asians when compared to other ethnic groups. It can often go unnoticed or easily overlooked by the patient or even by doctors because most of them are asymptomatic and is most of the time only a tiny pit that can be trivial in terms of aesthetics. We report a very rare and unique case that has no precedence what so ever; hence no reported case in the literature: an ectopic preauricular sinus in a facial cleft and microsomia patient.