Development of a Haptic Training Simulation for the Administration of Dental Anaesthesia based upon Accurate Anatomical Data
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2014
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The Eurographics Association
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In the dental curriculum, the initial administration of local anaesthesia injection on live patients is critical and students may experience a high degree of anxiety. Low self-confidence often caused by insufficient knowledge of anatomy has been repeatedly reported as one of the major causes. In this paper, we focus on the development of a haptic training system based upon an accurate anatomical model, which aims to encourage self-paced learning of the practical skills that are required in such procedures and to increase students' self-confidence. We first present the workflow we have considered to develop an accurate anatomical model of the human head and neck and introduce a Virtual Reality-based application commissioned by NHS Education for Scotland to support the learning of the anatomy in a safe and repeatable manner. Finally, we describe the functionalities of the haptic training system and discuss further developments with regard to existing research outcomes.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurovr.20141353,
booktitle = {EuroVR 2014 - Conference and Exhibition of the European Association of Virtual and Augmented Reality},
editor = {Jerome Perret and Valter Basso and Francesco Ferrise and Kaj Helin and Vincent Lepetit and James Ritchie and Christoph Runde and Mascha van der Voort and Gabriel Zachmann},
title = {{Development of a Haptic Training Simulation for the Administration of Dental Anaesthesia based upon Accurate Anatomical Data}},
author = {Poyade, Matthieu and Lysakowski, Anna and Anderson, Paul},
year = {2014},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-76-7},
DOI = {10.2312/eurovr.20141353}
}