ArticleBMC oral health2025
The effect of virtual reality simulators on tooth preparation skills of dental students.
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- Visualizing the future: impact of holographic visualization on teaching minimally invasive veneer preparation: a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Evaluation of dental students' tooth preparation skills using conventional phantom labs versus advanced simulation technologies: a comparative study.BMC medical education · 2025Trial
- Evaluation of Panoramic Acquisition Errors by Predoctoral Dental Students.Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Virtual Simulation Versus Traditional Training for Orthodontic Bracket Positioning: A Pilot RCT.International dental journal · 2026Article
- Bridging the Gap: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Haptic Simulators Compared to Traditional Methods in Preclinical Dental Education.Dentistry journal · 2026Review
- Stage of manual skill acquisition with Simodont virtual reality simulator for pre-clinical dental training: an interventional matching study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Personalized Learning With Artificial Intelligence in Dental Education: An Integrative Review.International journal of dentistry · 2026Review
- Effect of a virtual reality simulator for preclinical instruction of operative dentistry on level of competence of undergraduate dental students.BMC medical education · 2025Article
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Abstract
backroundIt has been considered that the preclinical education may be inadequate in the development of preparation skills of dental students. With technological developments, there is an increase in the use of computer-aided simulations in dental education. Virtual reality (VR) patient simulators promise practice in a realistic environment with detailed, frequent and objective feedback, but it remains unclear whether these features lead to better or faster skill acquisition. This study aims to investigate the impact of virtual reality simulations on students' clinical preparation skills.
methodsIn this study, tooth preparation data of 100 fourth-year students who practiced preparation with a virtual reality device and had real patient experience, as well as a group of 100 fifth-year students who had no prior virtual reality experience but had real patient experience, were transferred to the exocad
resultsIn the descriptive statistical analysis, it was determined that the average preparation angles of the 4th-year students were lower than those of the 5th-year students. Accordingly, it is possible to say that grade levels affect all surface preparation results in a statistically significant way. In descriptive statistics regarding patient preparation experience, the averages of the preparation angles taken according to the tooth surfaces of the 4th and 5th Grades are; The averages of the mesial, distal and buccal surfaces are close to each other, but only on the palatal surfaces, there is a significant difference between the averages of the 4th Grade (12.46) and the current average of the 5th Grade (15.22). The results of the Independent Samples T-Test conducted in the context of grade levels and four surface areas, is examined, it is seen that there are statistically significant differences between grade levels and the preparation results of all surfaces (p < 0.05).
conclusionsAccording to the results of this study, students who used virtual reality simulators were more successful in terms of tooth preparation angles compared to students who did not use virtual reality simulators. This study demonstrated that the use of virtual reality simulators contributes to tooth prepartion skills.
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