The Power of Your Smile

There’s a reason cosmetic dentistry is the most popular form of dentistry in the world. It’s not just to make you look good – it’s to make you feel good too! In fact, a confident smile is one of the most powerful acts you can have.

It’s amazing how much a smile can make an impact on a person, a group of people, and, most importantly, yourself. At Samaritan Dental Arts, we delve deep into a research project that shows just how important confident smiles really are.

The great medical, psychological, neurological, and social benefits of smiles are seemingly endless! Here’s just a few things that prove the power of your smile.

Smiles Predict Your Health

It’s true; the more you smile, the healthier and happier you may be. Researchers at UC Berkeley spent 30 years trying to predict the outcome of certain students’ lives based on their smiles (or lack of smiles). It turned out that the students with the brightest and most confident smiles had the longest-lasting marriages, the best scores on standardized tests, and the highest level of general happiness.

Next time you look in the mirror, smile wide – you could be predicting your own future happiness!

Smiles Can Determine Your Lifespan

Further studies have concluded that the lifespan of a person can be predicted by how widely they smile. Those who smile less don’t tend to live as long as those with great, bubbly smiles.

According to Wayne State University, those who don’t smile tend to live an average of 79 years, while those with great smiles can outlive them by an average of 6 years or more!

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Smiling is In Our Nature

Did you know that humans are born smiling? It may not seem that way to the face of a crying baby, but we are a species that loves to smile. New technologies have even been able to show that babies can smile while still in the womb, too!

Ever notice how easily a baby can smile when they hear the sound of their mother’s voice? Or how easily things can make them laugh? This is because they know they are meant to smile. Humans are born with superpowers; we have the ability to strongly impact a social situation from the strength of our smiles.

Not to mention that smiling is one of the and most primal and basic types of human expression that has been around since the dawn of man. All humans across all cultures, societies, and environments all use the biological smile. It’s been around for centuries, and it has been a universal form of communication for thousands of years.

We Smile Quite Often!

About 30% of all humans smile over 20 times a day, whether in response to a great joke or a pleasant morning. And often, our smiles can impact others’ smiles, too. Only 14% of the human population smiles less than 5 times a day, marking it as quite the rarity.

The most frequent smilers? Children! Babies and toddlers will smile over 400 times per day! They love flexing their superpowers, and they smile quite often as they learn how to control and influence their facial expressions.

Smiling is Always Rewarding

Our brain interprets the smile as something that always brings us a reward later on. It is similar to the experiments on classical conditioning, but it happens naturally within the brain.

Think about how good it feels when you eat a piece of chocolate. The chocolate stimulates the brain and gives you a sense of pleasure for a short while. Now imagine this: A single smile provides the brain with up to 2,000 times the amount of pleasure and satisfaction as a piece of chocolate. Not to mention the mental and physical health benefits are multiplied as well.

Improve Your Smile with Cosmetic Dentistry in Los Angeles!

Having a big and confident smile can have serious positive effects on your overall health and well-being. Having misshapen, discolored, or misaligned teeth can definitely strike down your self-esteem and keep you from smiling as much as you might want to. At Samaritan Dental Arts, we can provide high-quality cosmetic dentistry in Los Angeles to improve your smile in a painless and affordable way. For more information, contact us online. Or, give us a call at (213) 986-2933 to schedule an appointment. Our friendly staff members are here to help!