Virtual reality simulation training for dental surgery.
In dentistry the exquisite hand skill is required for daily treatments, However, dental students have little chance to treat patients in the clinical training So, present study constructed a process simulation to train the hand skill for tooth extraction, especially impacted wisdom tooth that was an example of the difficult case by using virtual reality haptic device.
Yoshida
Yoshinori
Y
Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Japan. y-yoshi@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp
Yamaguchi
Satoshi
S
Wakabayashi
Kazumich
K
Nagashima
Tadashi
T
Takeshige
Fumio
F
Kawamoto
Yusuke
Y
Noborio
Hiroshi
H
Sohmura
Taiji
T
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003814:Dentistry, Operative / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008964:Molar, Third; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000592:standards; D014110:Touch; D014584:User-Computer Interface