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Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation

Dental task trainer simulators using haptics (virtual touch) offers a cost-effective method of teaching certain clinical skills. The purpose of this study is to evaluate students’ performance in removing artificial caries after training with either a haptic dental chair simulator with virtual realit...

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Autores principales: San Diego, Jonathan P., Newton, Tim J., Sagoo, Anika K., Aston, Tracy-Ann, Banerjee, Avijit, Quinn, Barry F. A., Cox, Margaret J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/dj10110198
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author San Diego, Jonathan P.
Newton, Tim J.
Sagoo, Anika K.
Aston, Tracy-Ann
Banerjee, Avijit
Quinn, Barry F. A.
Cox, Margaret J.
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Newton, Tim J.
Sagoo, Anika K.
Aston, Tracy-Ann
Banerjee, Avijit
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Cox, Margaret J.
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description Dental task trainer simulators using haptics (virtual touch) offers a cost-effective method of teaching certain clinical skills. The purpose of this study is to evaluate students’ performance in removing artificial caries after training with either a haptic dental chair simulator with virtual reality or a traditional dental chair simulator with a mannequin head. Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials in two cohorts, both Year 1 dental students. Students taught using traditional dental chair simulators were compared with students taught using haptic-based simulators on their ability to cut a cavity in a plastic tooth following training. Across both cohorts, there was no difference in the quality of cavity cut, though students’ technique differed across the two simulator groups in some respects. No difference was seen across both cohorts in the quality of cavity cut for a simple preparation, though students in the haptic condition performed less well in the more demanding task. Moreover, students in the haptic group were also less likely to be perceived to be ‘holding the instrument appropriately’. These findings suggest further investigation is needed into the differences in handling of instruments and level of clinical task difficulty between the simulators.
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spelling pubmed-96898192022-11-25 Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation San Diego, Jonathan P. Newton, Tim J. Sagoo, Anika K. Aston, Tracy-Ann Banerjee, Avijit Quinn, Barry F. A. Cox, Margaret J. Dent J (Basel) Article Dental task trainer simulators using haptics (virtual touch) offers a cost-effective method of teaching certain clinical skills. The purpose of this study is to evaluate students’ performance in removing artificial caries after training with either a haptic dental chair simulator with virtual reality or a traditional dental chair simulator with a mannequin head. Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials in two cohorts, both Year 1 dental students. Students taught using traditional dental chair simulators were compared with students taught using haptic-based simulators on their ability to cut a cavity in a plastic tooth following training. Across both cohorts, there was no difference in the quality of cavity cut, though students’ technique differed across the two simulator groups in some respects. No difference was seen across both cohorts in the quality of cavity cut for a simple preparation, though students in the haptic condition performed less well in the more demanding task. Moreover, students in the haptic group were also less likely to be perceived to be ‘holding the instrument appropriately’. These findings suggest further investigation is needed into the differences in handling of instruments and level of clinical task difficulty between the simulators. MDPI 2022-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9689819/ /pubmed/36354643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/dj10110198 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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San Diego, Jonathan P.
Newton, Tim J.
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Cox, Margaret J.
Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation
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title_fullStr Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation
title_full_unstemmed Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation
title_short Learning Clinical Skills Using Haptic vs. Phantom Head Dental Chair Simulators in Removal of Artificial Caries: Cluster-Randomized Trials with Two Cohorts’ Cavity Preparation
title_sort learning clinical skills using haptic vs. phantom head dental chair simulators in removal of artificial caries: cluster-randomized trials with two cohorts’ cavity preparation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/dj10110198
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