AR Dental Surgical Simulator Using Haptic Feedback

Abstract

We describe about our dental surgical simulator which enable users to simulate dental surgical operation. Our simulator which enables the user to learn dental surgical methods through actual hand and body postures. The proposed system uses a display showing a virtual tooth model and real teeth and gums that are positioned close to the hands of the user, which allows the user to directly manipulate objects with haptic feedback. As a preliminary evaluation, in display system, we measured the deviation between real object image and virtual object image at user's view positions. And we confirmed the capability and the limitation of our system. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.