The Value of a Smile: Part One
The Value of a Smile.
Make a difference. Change lives. Smile.
When something makes you happy, you smile. It’s automatic. It’s innate. It’s human.
Now imagine living your life, day in, day out, fighting this natural expression.You may be surprised how much it impacts everything around you. Read part one of “The Value of a Smile”…
It only takes a lift of your cheek muscles and a raising of the corners of your lips to create it. The formation of small crinkles around your eyes and a slight twinkle accompany a truly genuine one.
A smile is the easy to identify, hard to resist expression that makes you happy whether you’re on the giving or receiving end of it. It’s one of the few things that human beings have in common. To be accurate, it’s one of six things that human beings have in common.
In 1872, evolution pioneer Charles Darwin discovered the Six Universal Expressions of Emotion: Anger, Fear, Disgust, Sadness, Surprise and Happiness. Human beings across the globe all express these six non-verbal emotions the same way, allowing anyone to successfully communicate non-verbally with another, no matter their language or culture.
For instance, to express the emotion of happiness, you smile. Many people smile with lips apart, showing their pearly whites and all their glory. But for some people, happy or not, smiling is out of the question.
A recent study by Bupa, an international healthcare group, found that “28 percent of people don’t show their smile when taking pictures on social media because they assume their teeth are unattractive.”
While the non-verbal cue of smiling is easily taken for granted, there are others who are continuously making a effort to avoid forming this innate expression due to embarrassment regarding their teeth.
Fear. Esteem.
Of the 327 million people in the United States, 37% are missing at least one tooth, and 11% have no teeth at all. Not one.
This means that 36 million Americans, or over one out of every ten people in this country, are edentulous, and thus disinclined to smile.
Of the 327 million people in the United States, 37% are missing at least one tooth, and 11% have no teeth at all. Not one.
This means that 36 million Americans, or over one out of every ten people in this country, are edentulous, and thus disinclined to smile.
The edentulous population is missing out on the many values that the non-verbal cue of happiness, smiling specifically, provides. Easily the most powerful of all human expressions, smiling can be the driver in you leading a healthy, happy, and quite fulfilling life, by having a positive impact on the parts of life you value the most.
Dentists who specialize in denture and implant surgery do so because of the lives that these Americans lead. A recent survey at Affordable Dentures & Implants (AD&I), the nation’s largest network of tooth replacement specialists found that the opportunity to impact patients’ lives was by far the number one reason dentists joined AD&I. It’s also the top reason they stay with the company.
These dentists see the need. In the same survey, one affiliated practice owner at Affordable Dentures & Implants wrote, “The ability to give our patients a smile that they are proud of is EVERYTHING.” These highly skilled dentists continuously perfect their craft all because they know the life-changing influence that a set of teeth, and the smile it creates, has on one’s life.
SMILING AND YOUR SOCIAL LIFE
Whenever you’re introduced to someone the first thing you do is look at their face. Besides being the polite thing to do, looking at someone’s face is how your mind is able to identify, recognize and store this new person in your brain, filing it away for another day. Whether a person chooses to smile at this meeting will impact how you feel about them. Don’t forget to read part two of “The Value of a Smile”.
A recent survey at Affordable Dentures & Implants (AD&I), the nation’s largest network of tooth replacement focused dentists, found that the opportunity to impact patients’ lives was by far the number one reason dentists joined and stayed.
Are you ready to create smiles?
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