ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Oral Health
Sec. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/froh.2025.1592095
This article is part of the Research TopicVR-Haptic Technologies and Their Applications in Dental EducationView all articles
Integrating Haptic Simulation in Dentistry: Faculty Insights and Future Directions
Provisionally accepted
Danya Hashem*
Abeer FaragAmnah A. AlgarniRania Zahran MubarakNisreen Nabiel Hassan
Anfal AlqussierSomaya Ali Saleh- Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia
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Purpose: Evaluate the knowledge of faculty members about haptic virtual reality simulation (HVRS) in dentistry and assess faculty members' perception towards the use of HVRS in dental education.Methods: This interventional study involved distributing a questionnaire to 29 faculty members from different dental specialties as a baseline before attending a hands-on workshop on HVRS followed by another questionnaire distributed after the workshop. Data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 26, employing chi-squared tests for statistical significance.Results: Around 69% of faculty members had heard of HVRS prior to the study, but 86% had no prior experience using it. There was an increase in the willingness to use HVRS in teaching and to be included as an adjunct to pre-clinical and clinical training after attending the workshop. Post-training assessments indicated a significant shift in perceptions, with faculty expressing high satisfaction regarding the ergonomic design, visual system, and usability of the Simodont® simulator. Participants agreed that HVRS could enhance students' manual skills and self-evaluation capabilities.Faculty members at Taibah University expressed a positive perception of the use of HVRS in dental education and a willingness to adopt HVRS as a teaching aid. They intend to incorporate it into pre-clinical and clinical training. Although the study has a small sample size, it highlights the need for ongoing faculty training to facilitate the integration of HVRS technology in dental education, while also calling for further research to explore its long-term effects on learning outcomes.
Keywords: Haptic Virtual Reality Simulation, Simodont dental trainer, Faculty perception, Clinical training, dental education
Received: 12 Mar 2025; Accepted: 22 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hashem, Farag, Algarni, Mubarak, Hassan, Alqussier and Saleh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Danya Hashem, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia
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