The need for virtual reality simulators in dental education: A review

Virtual reality simulators are becoming an essential part of modern education. The benefits of Virtual reality in dentistry is constantly being assessed as a method or an adjunct to improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination in pre-clinical settings and overcome the monetary and intellectual c...

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Autores principales: Roy, Elby, Bakr, Mahmoud M., George, Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28490842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sdentj.2017.02.001
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description Virtual reality simulators are becoming an essential part of modern education. The benefits of Virtual reality in dentistry is constantly being assessed as a method or an adjunct to improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination in pre-clinical settings and overcome the monetary and intellectual challenges involved with such training. This article, while providing an overview of the virtual reality dental simulators, also looks at the link between virtual reality simulation and current pedagogical knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-54118912017-05-10 The need for virtual reality simulators in dental education: A review Roy, Elby Bakr, Mahmoud M. George, Roy Saudi Dent J Review Article Virtual reality simulators are becoming an essential part of modern education. The benefits of Virtual reality in dentistry is constantly being assessed as a method or an adjunct to improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination in pre-clinical settings and overcome the monetary and intellectual challenges involved with such training. This article, while providing an overview of the virtual reality dental simulators, also looks at the link between virtual reality simulation and current pedagogical knowledge. Elsevier 2017-04 2017-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5411891/ /pubmed/28490842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sdentj.2017.02.001 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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