Preclinical dental students self-assessment of an improved operative dentistry virtual reality simulator with haptic feedback.

ABSTRACT: To test and evaluate the second installment of DENTIFY, a virtual reality haptic simulator for Operative Dentistry (OD), on preclinical dental students, by focusing on user performance and self-assessment. Twenty voluntary unpaid preclinical dental students, with different background experience, were enrolled for this study. After the completion of an informed consent, a demographic questionnaire, and being introduced to the prototype (on the first testing session), three testing sessions followed (S1, S2, S3). Each session involved the following steps: (I) free experimentation; (II) task execution; S3 also included (III) completion of questionnaires associated with the experiment (total of 8 Self-Assessment Questions (SAQ)); and (IV) guided interview. As expected, drill time decreased ste

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936106 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature