Virtual Dental Patient: a System for Virtual Teeth Drilling

Author

Marras, I. ; Papaleontiou, L. ; Nikolaidis, N. ; Lyroudia, K. ; Pitas, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 July 2006

Firstpage

665

Lastpage

668

Abstract

This paper introduces, a virtual teeth drilling system named virtual dental patient designed to aid dentists in getting acquainted with the teeth anatomy, the handling of drilling instruments and the challenges associated with the drilling procedure. The basic aim of the system is to be used for the training of dental students. The application features a 3D model of the face and the oral cavity that can be adapted to the characteristics of a specific person and animated. Drilling using a haptic device is performed on realistic teeth models (constructed from real data), within the oral cavity. Results and intermediate steps of the drilling procedure can be saved for future use

Keywords

biomedical education; biomedical equipment; computer aided instruction; dentistry; drilling; haptic interfaces; training; virtual reality; 3D facial model; dental students training; drilling instruments handling; drilling procedure; haptic device; oral cavity modelling; realistic teeth model; teeth anatomy; virtual dental patient; virtual teeth drilling; Anatomy; Computational modeling; Dentistry; Drilling; Facial animation; Haptic interfaces; Imaging phantoms; Instruments; Land use planning; Teeth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0366-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2006.262533

Filename

4036687