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Once of ImmersiveMed's major goals is to use Augmented Reality to help dentists and surgeons to perform surgery more accurately. The mouth is covered by skin, bone teeth and gum tissue. Underneath are nerves, sinuses, teeth and bone that can be injured if an implant drill goes off track or an implant is placed incorrectly. By complaining CBCT and Intra Oral dental scans, we now have "X-ray vision" and can see those anatomic objects we must avoid.
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The surgical placement of a dental implant involves a lot of moving parts. To show this live, you would need a patient, drills and numerous parts, an intra oral scanner and the ability to manufacture a crown. We have done all of this for you, virtually! By allowing doctors to perform the procedure within the Oculus 2 headset, they can get familiar with all the various parts involved in placing and restoring an implant. As a standalone headset, this can be used as a complete teaching tool. Or you can have various hands on "break outs" in between pre recorded "2D" lectures outside of VR.
This is an example of two people interacting in one virtual space. This can be used for demoing tools with a sales rep present to guide the client through the process or as a more authentic guided learning experience.
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3D Printing is all the rage in medicine and dentistry. 3D Printing is also very messy! In this simulation we cover everything from 3D scanning, 3D Printing, and the post processing steps to get a 3D model. To ship all the equipment would require a lot of heavy lifting as well as dealing with the mess and smell that comes with resin based 3D printing. In any simulation you can pick the VR environment, in this case we went with "secret lab", however the sky is the limit when it comes to VR.
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In Dentistry we make crowns and other dental restorations based on the patient's bite. However this is determined not just by the shape of the teeth but also how your lower jaw attaches to your skull. By integrating a 3D Face scan and combining it with motion tracking data captured on an iPhone, we get a good look at how the patient's jaw will move with the new dental restorations.
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Mixed Reality (MR) is still pretty new and within the next few years may even replace virtual reality. With MR you can see the room you are in. With VR you can't see if you are walking into a wall or a chair, however the headset will warn you if you are getting too close. Mixed Reality is "content aware" in that 3D objects can be placed on surfaces like a couch or a table. In this simulation we used the Magic Leap MR device to produce a hologram of a dental model that can be moved and manipulated within the space of your room.
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