Augmented reality system for dental implant surgery

Abstract

Recently, computer-assisted navigation systems have been developed to realize safe and precise surgery. In conventional systems, surgeons feel anxious intra-operatively because they have to watch a surgical monitor while operating instruments in the oral cavity. The objective of this study is to develop a novel dental implant navigation system by combining the retinal projection head mounted display (RPHMD) and the augmented reality techniques that can directly overlay pre-operative simulation images onto the real view of the surgeon. In this paper, we propose an image overlay procedure based on the RPHMD and verify its accuracy. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.