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The document discusses a systematic review of augmented and virtual reality applications in dental medicine. It provides context on current digital applications, identifies the need to better understand infiltration and implementation of AR/VR technologies in dentistry, and aims to report current knowledge and research needs to enable clinical translation.

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The document discusses a systematic review of augmented and virtual reality applications in dental medicine. It provides context on current digital applications, identifies the need to better understand infiltration and implementation of AR/VR technologies in dentistry, and aims to report current knowledge and research needs to enable clinical translation.

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Paper - Augmented and virtual reality in dental medicine: A

systematic review
Ref -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001048251930085X

Introduction (Copied from the paper): Digital applications are broadly


used in all disciplines of dental medicine today. In addition to
three-dimensional (3D) imaging as well as computer-aided design and
computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), computer simulations are
showing huge potential and stimulating increased attention. Virtual
simulation applications offetop-up information to the real environment,
and thus open novel opportunities in the clinically operational field and in
education. One of the biggest confusions in the area of simulation
technology is the differentiation between augmented reality (AR) and
virtual reality (VR): AR is a technology that superimposes a
computer-generated virtual scenario atop an existing reality in order to
create a sensory perception through the ability to interact with it. It is
developed into applications and used on mobile devices to blend digital
components into the real world in such a way that they enhance each
other, but can also be easily used apart. In contrast, VR is an artificial
computer-generated simulation of a real life environment or situation. It
immerses the user by making them feel like experiencing the simulated
reality firsthand, primarily by stimulation of vision and audience in
real-time. The two main features of VR are immersion and interaction.
Immersion indicates the presence in the virtual setting; and interaction
refers to the operator's performance of modification. A successful
AR/VR-system is built on the following essential functionalities to be
operated and closely integrated with one another: real and virtual data
sources, tracking, registration techniques, visualization processing,
perception locations, and feedback mechanisms. To date, AR/VR has
been applied to various fields of social life such as industrial processing,
entertainment, marketing; and medicine is not an exception, especially in
the surgically dominated disciplines using minimally invasive approaches
such as endo- and laparoscopic surgery. However, the infiltration rate and
routine implementation of AR/ VR-technologies in dentistry is still
unknown. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to provide an
update on the current knowledge, to report on the scientific progress of
AR and VR in the field of dental medicine, and to identify further research
needs that will accomplish its clinical translation.

A. Context of the problem addressed:

“Digital applications are broadly used in all disciplines of dental


medicine today. In addition to three-dimensional (3D) imaging as well
as computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing
(CAD/CAM), computer simulations are showing huge potential and
stimulating increased attention.”

B. Rationale for research:

“However, the infiltration rate and routine implementation of AR/


VR-technologies in dentistry is still unknown. Therefore, the aim of
this systematic review was to provide an update on the current
knowledge, to report on the scientific progress of AR and VR in the
field of dental medicine, and to identify further research needs that
will accomplish its clinical translation.”

C. Problem statement:

● “One of the biggest confusions in the area of simulation


technology is the differentiation between augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR)”

● “However, the infiltration rate and routine implementation of AR/


VR-technologies in dentistry is still unknown.”
D. Steps that will be taken to solve problem
to provide an update on the current knowledge, to report on the
scientific progress of AR and VR in the field of dental medicine, and
to identify further research needs that will accomplish its clinical
translation.

E. Limitations / Assumptions

Assumption - “A successful AR/VR-system is built on the following


essential functionalities to be operated and closely integrated with
one another:
real and virtual data sources, tracking, registration techniques,
visualization processing, perception locations, and feedback
mechanisms"

F. Others

Current application area of the technology being discussed: To date,


AR/VR has been applied to various fields of social life such as
industrial processing, entertainment, marketing; and medicine is not
an exception, especially in the surgically dominated disciplines using
minimally invasive approaches such as endo- and laparoscopic
surgery.

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