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.
