Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Dental Training

牙科手术是一项复杂的技能，需要大量的培训和实践。缺乏有效的培训，加上时间压力和牙医不切实际的目标，导致手术并发症和病人不满意。虚拟现实（VR）在牙科领域显示出巨大的潜力，因为它为牙科手术模拟/培训提供了一种低成本的方法。一些英国大学目前使用VR进行牙科培训，但目前的技术是有限的;他们不能在线使用，所以学生仍然必须前往场地进行培训，他们遵循传统的培训程序，未能利用游戏化的潜力来激励学生。为了满足对改进的VR培训解决方案的需求，HL将为修复与美容牙科（RAD）学生提供远程学习解决方案（适用于涵盖RAD方面的任何MSC或BSC）。该技术将在现有的课程材料中实施VR组件，从而改善最先进的和获奖的学习计划。VR内容将嵌入到课程材料中，专为远程学习而设计，使用低成本的消费电子产品（VR耳机成本为15 - 30英镑，与智能手机兼容~100英镑）交付给学生。这将大大扩大全球能够从教育中受益的牙医的“人口”;帮助提高培训质量;并帮助学生更有效地接触更广泛的治疗问题。

Dental surgery is a complicated and dextrous skill which requires significant training and practice. Lack of effective training combined with time pressures and unrealistic targets on dentists leads to surgical complications and unsatisfied patients. Virtual reality (VR) has shown great potential in the field of dentistry as it provides a low cost approach for dental surgery simulation/training. A few UK universities currently use VR for dental training, however CURRENT technologies are limited; they cannot be used online, so students must still travel to the venue for training, and they follow traditional training procedures failing to exploit the potential of gamification to motivate students. To address the need for improved VR training solutions, HL will deliver a remote learning solution for Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry (RAD) students (appropriate for any MSc or BSc covering aspects of RAD). The tech will implement the VR component into existing course material thus improving a state of the art and award winning learning programme. The VR content will be embedded into course material and designed specifically for remote learning, to be delivered to students using low cost consumer electronics (VR headsets costing £15-£30 are compatible with Smartphones ~£100). This will significantly extend the ‘population’ of dentists globally who are able to benefit from the education; help standardise and raise the quality of training; and help expose students to a wider range of treatment issues, more efficiently.