Dental simulation
Things have come a long way since consultant in restorative dentistry, Peter Briggs, was a dental student and graduates used to practice dental techniques on each another before moving on to patients.
An indication of just how far things have changed is the opening of a new state-of-the-art dental simulation unit at St. George’s Hospital, in Tooting, South West London.
The £350,000 facility creates an excellent learning environment for postgraduate clinical training for: year 1 (foundation dentists), year 2-4 (dental core trainees), specialists and consultants in training and general dental practitioners together with other members of the dental team.
The training suite includes 15 tutor/student work stations along with accompanying ‘phantom head’ simulators linked to video enabled surgical operating microscopes. Touch screen HD Smots technology further aids the teaching experience.
Furthermore, the high fidelity simulation training space is equipped with internet cameras offering live link teaching to the Maxillo-Facial Unit of the Hospital.
The dental team will be able to cut; shave, drill, fill and drill a variety of plastic teeth set with in the jaws of state of the art phantoms’ jaws and undertake surgical procedures on the work surface.
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