Resumen de Impact of Virtual Reality Technologies on Maxillofacial Surgery Education
Hugo Iván Medellín Castillo, Jorge Zaragoza Siqueiros, Eder Govea Valladares
T he development and use of computer and virtual reality (vr) technologies have increased enormously in the last decades. A wide range of vr applications are proposed at engineering, medicine, architecture, archaeology, entertainment and education. At medical education, the aim is to develop computer and vr systems that can be used for teaching and training students and young practitioners. However, although modern engineering technologies have conducted to the development or computer-aided surgical procedures and systems, education and training in maxillofacial surgery still relies mainly on the classic physical hands-on approach, which requires years of hand-on training in the operating room (or) or in laboratory-based surgical practices over cadavers or models. In this chapter is analyzed and discussed the potential impact of the use of virtual reality technologies on maxillofacial surgery education.
