Virtual dental surgery as a new educational tool in dental school.

  • Philipp Pohlenz
  • Alexander Gröbe
  • Andreas Petersik
  • Norman Sternberg-Gospos
  • Bernhard Pflesser
  • Andreas Pommert
  • Karl-Heinz Höhne
  • Tiede Ulf
  • Ingo Springer
  • Max Heiland

Abstract

The virtual environment of the Voxel-Man simulator that was originally designed for virtual surgical procedures of the middle ear has been adapted to intraoral procedures. To assess application of the simulator to dentistry, virtual apicectomies were chosen as the pilot-test model.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number8
ISSN1010-5182
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20303282