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In the near future, this work will continue to develop into the area of
external (wearable) facial prosthetics. Non-invasive light-based optical
scanning of faces has shown promise in the area but so far been of limited
success due to the diffi culties in handling point cloud data and converting
it quickly and simply into a useable format (8). It is planned that work in
facial prosthetics using the proposed approach will follow directly as a
natural progression of this study.
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