Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
DOI: 10.2196/23635
Keywords
dental simulator; dental education; virtual reality
Funding
- Teaching Reformation Fund of Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology [2018-ZD-04, 2019-ZD-07]
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The application of virtual reality in dental education is expanding, with dental simulators assisting traditional teaching methods to improve convenience, but facing challenges due to technology limitations.
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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