Virtual Reality Dental Training System with Haptics

Abstract

In this paper, a Virtual Reality Dental Training System is suggested, the virtual patient, dentist's hands and assistant's hand are constructed in this system, the operator can look into the patient's mouth and directly operate with the hand-piece and dental mirror in the virtual world. The operator can aware of some dangers while dental training when the virtual patient suddenly moves his tongue. If operator mistakes, this system makes the sound and display the metaphor for warning. And force feedback was introduced into this system using PHANToM DESKTOP, therefore, it can hold off the tongue and cheek using a dental mirror with the touch sense.