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.
Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Japan. y-yoshi@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp
Yoshinori
Y
Yoshida
Satoshi
S
Yamaguchi
Kazumich
K
Wakabayashi
Tadashi
T
Nagashima
Fumio
F
Takeshige
Yusuke
Y
Kawamoto
Hiroshi
H
Noborio
Taiji
T
Sohmura
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