抄録
Though maxillofacial palpation is one of the essential diagnosis skills for dentists, students of dental school have no experiences of undergoing maxillofacial palpation against ambulant patients before their graduation due to the concerns about risks to the patients. Hence, a virtual training environment of maxillofacial palpation has been desired from the coauthor dentists. Then this study aims to develop a virtual patient model of a maxillofacial palpation system that is composed of a virtual patient model and a haptic interface. A virtual patient model was firstly built by using CT data of head mannequin and linear finite element method. This paper introduces the virtual patient model and discusses about the future development of this system.
