Current outcome tracking in facial palsy is multimodal, consisting of patient-reported
outcome measures, clinician-graded scoring systems, objective assessment tools, and novel …

Purpose E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular devices used to consume nicotine
in recent years. There is a growing body of evidence regarding the risk of spontaneous …

Background: Facial palsy assessment is nonstandardized. Clinician-graded scales are
limited by subjectivity and observer bias. Computer-aided grading would be desirable to …

Purpose Modern 3-dimensional (3D) image acquisition systems represent a crucial
technologic development in facial anatomy because of their accuracy and precision. The …

The incapability to move the facial muscles is known as facial palsy, and it affects various
abilities of the patient, for example, performing facial expressions. Recently, automatic …

Laser scanner devices are acquiring a growing importance in facial anatomy. Most studies
have analysed facial scans obtained through two simultaneous captures, whereas the same …

Purpose To quantify the surface facial asymmetry in a group of young patients with
hemifacial microsomia (HFM) and to investigate differences with a homogeneous sample of …

Facial palsy (FP) is a neurological disorder that affects the facial nerve, specifically the
seventh nerve, resulting in the patient losing control of the facial muscles on one side of the …

Three-dimensional symmetry and coordination are important factors in facial aesthetics, and
analysis of facial asymmetry is the basis for clinical diagnosis, treatment, and doctor–patient …

Background We aimed to establish a novel method, using the weighted Procrustes analysis
(WPA) algorithm, which assigns weight to facial anatomical landmarks, to construct a three …