1P1-V07 Development of head and neck palpation training system using free mesh method

Abstract

At present, no practical training for maxillofacial palpation has been conducted in the dental education curriculum. Against this educational background, the coauthor dentists requested us to develop a virtual training system that enables dental students to undergo maxillofacial palpation against a patient. Then, this paper presents a virtual training system for maxillofacial palpation by using virtual reality and haptic interface. In the present stage, we used multi-CT image of PHANToM to construct a virtual patient model. The dynamic model of the patient model is improved by using free mesh method, which can perform efficient computation.