An interactive simulation system for training and treatment planning in orthodontics

Rodriguês, Maria Andréia Formico; Silva, Wendel B.; Neto, Milton E. Barbosa; Gillies, Donald; Ribeiro, Isabel M.

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2007.04.010

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“…To date, many pilot tests have been conducted to evaluate the validity of dental simulators in endodontics [3,83], periodontics [12,42,43,84,85], oral and maxillofacial surgery [65,[86][87][88], dental radiography [41], prosthodontics [37,59,85], implantology [89,90], and orthodontics [90]; the specific applications of dental simulators in dental education are summarized in Table 2. Many researchers are positive about the roles that dental simulators play in skills training.…”

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“…Suebnukarn et al evaluated the effectiveness of dental simulators in cavity preparation and concluded that haptic VR simulators are equivalent to conventional dental phantom heads in reducing operation errors [92]. Other research provided evidence that students can improve their tooth extraction skills [93], dental radiology skills [47], and implant skills [32,90] through dental simulators. Dental simulators were also reported to be able to enhance students' confidence [94] and improve their attitudes toward patients [53] and abilities to discern and solve medical emergencies [70,95,96].…”

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The Current Situation and Future Prospects of Simulators in Dental Education

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et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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The application of virtual reality has become increasingly extensive as this technology has developed. In dental education, virtual reality is mainly used to assist or replace traditional methods of teaching clinical skills in preclinical training for several subjects, such as endodontics, prosthodontics, periodontics, implantology, and dental surgery. The application of dental simulators in teaching can make up for the deficiency of traditional teaching methods and reduce the teaching burden, improving convenience for both teachers and students. However, because of the technology limitations of virtual reality and force feedback, dental simulators still have many hardware and software disadvantages that have prevented them from being an alternative to traditional dental simulators as a primary skill training method. In the future, when combined with big data, cloud computing, 5G, and deep learning technology, dental simulators will be able to give students individualized learning assistance, and their functions will be more diverse and suitable for preclinical training. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of current dental simulators on related technologies, advantages and disadvantages, methods of evaluating effectiveness, and future directions for development.

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Section: Effectiveness Of Dental Simulatorsmentioning

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The Current Situation and Future Prospects of Simulators in Dental Education

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et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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“…The latter term has been applied to persistent online social spaces—virtual environments that people experience as ongoing over time and that have large populations which they experience together with others as a world for social interaction [ 2 ]. Although virtual reality technology has already been applied to dental education, including operative dentistry [ 3 ], endodontics [ 4 ], orthodontics [ 5 ], and implant surgery [ 6 ], and seems to have educational benefits, virtual worlds are relatively new to this area. Virtual worlds are similar to 3D online video games, such as the popular “World of Warcraft” and “The Sims Social” on Facebook .…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Simulation for Pediatric Dentistry in Virtual Worlds

Papadopoulos¹,

Pentzou²,

Louloudiadis³

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BackgroundThree-dimensional virtual worlds are becoming very popular among educators in the medical field. Virtual clinics and patients are already used for case study and role play in both undergraduate and continuing education levels. Dental education can also take advantage of the virtual world’s pedagogical features in order to give students the opportunity to interact with virtual patients (VPs) and practice in treatment planning.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to design and evaluate a virtual patient as a supplemental teaching tool for pediatric dentistry.MethodsA child VP, called Erietta, was created by utilizing the programming and building tools that online virtual worlds offer. The case is about an eight-year old girl visiting the dentist with her mother for the first time. Communication techniques such as Tell-Show-Do and parents’ interference management were the basic elements of the educational scenario on which the VP was based. An evaluation of the simulation was made by 103 dental students in their fourth year of study. Two groups were formed: an experimental group which was exposed to the simulation (n=52) and a control group which did not receive the simulation (n=51). At the end, both groups were asked to complete a knowledge questionnaire and the results were compared.ResultsA statistically significant difference between the two groups was found by applying a t test for independent samples (P<.001), showing a positive learning effect from the VP. The majority of the participants evaluated the aspects of the simulation very positively while 69% (36/52) of the simulation group expressed their preference for using this module as an additional teaching tool.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated that a pediatric dentistry VP built in a virtual world offers significant learning potential when used as a supplement to the traditional teaching techniques.

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“…Kim et al used a hybrid surface representation for haptic display [9]. In recent years, many haptic force feedback simulators based on volumetric and surface-based have been proposed for virtual simulation and visualization of medical training [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]. In real dental treatment, tissues will be removed according to the interaction between the moving tool and tissues.…”

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Surface-Based Virtual Dental Surgical Simulator using Haptic Display

Furqan

Kang

2011

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

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This research work presents a surface-based virtual dental surgical simulator in which dentists can perform dental procedures using various cutters with realistic feelings of touch. Generating realistic smooth tactile feelings during drilling, grinding, or scrubbing is a critical issue in triangular sculpting simulators. Therefore, a stable haptic rendering algorithm is required to generate realistic touch feeling. In this simulator, the force feedback is realized using a spring damper force model and a force filter is proposed to make the force feedback smooth. Fast and efficient collision detection is used using vertex deformation technique for the sculpting process. In addition, the simulator is not designed for the one specific surface-based tooth model but rather the sculpting simulation can be carried out on any scanned model from a commercial 3D dental scanner. 848surface. Experiments were carried out using a Phantom Omni TM haptic device; these experiments involved the three-dimensional cutting of a tooth model using a proposed force filtering method. The experiment operations verify that the force stability can be easily maintained under the specified operation criteria.

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An interactive simulation system for training and treatment planning in orthodontics

Cited by 23 publications

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The Current Situation and Future Prospects of Simulators in Dental Education

The Current Situation and Future Prospects of Simulators in Dental Education

Design and Evaluation of a Simulation for Pediatric Dentistry in Virtual Worlds

Surface-Based Virtual Dental Surgical Simulator using Haptic Display

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