Goals and objectives
Despite enthusiasm for the educational potential of the World Wide Web, few dental educators use the new opportunities offered by this medium beyond the presentation of textual information. Based on this observation, we have decided to design our own interactive Web-based 3D crown preparation course. The course objective is to provide dental students with fundamental didactic and technical knowledge to begin preclinical skill development for full crown preparations. The course incorporates a variety of interactive features including images which allow students to examine the dimensions and contours of the burs in comparison to the dimensions and the shape of the crown preparation. QuickDraw 3D allows the direct manipulation of 3D graphical models by the users.

History
In the past Temple University School of Dentistry (TUSoD) integrated several Web-based resources into the school’s intranet to enhance the opportunities for teaching and patient treatment. The crown preparation course was developed by Ronald Kaiser during an internship at the Department of Dental Informatics in connection with the Department of Restorative Dentistry from September 1999 to February 2000. Even if the course won a software award from AMIA, Temple desided the program to not be continued. Thus, supported by Heiko Spallek the crown preparation course moved to Pitt.

Prerequisites
In order to view the course, please make sure that you have the following components installed:
Web browser Firefox or Internet Explorer
Flash Player: Install the latest Flash Player related to your web browser.
Authorware Web Player: Install the latest Authorware Web Player related to your web browser.
QuickDraw 3D: Download and extract the ZIP-file to your hard disk. Run "setup.exe" in the QD3D-folder to install the QuickDraw 3D-plugin on your computer.

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