Online Course Demo: Crown Preparation
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.
Online Course
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