Haptic Device Integrated Dental Education Simulation: A Case Study

Virtual Reality (VR) applications in medicine hadsignificant improvements. 3D visualization of variousanatomical parts using advanced medical scannerimages, anatomy education, surgery operationsimulation, virtual simulator for laparoscopicskills, virtual endoscopy, psychotherapy andrehabilitation techniques are some of the VRapplications in medicine. Integration of the hapticdevices into VR applications increased the quality ofthe systems. By using haptic devices, the user cannot only feed information to the computer but canreceive information from the computer in the form ofa felt sensation on some part of the body. In thisstudy a method to develop a dental educationsimulator supported by haptic feedback is describedand the evaluation studies held with dentists arepresented.