Next Generation in Dental Training
DenTeach™ is an advanced portable dental training platform that complements traditional methods by utilizing Industry 4.0 technology, seamlessly integrating and synchronizing VAF and patient’s posture between the instructor and the student in real-time by using our DT-Rightway™ Dental Articulator technology. DT-PrepScanner™ allows students and instructors to automatically measure the required dimensions of a dental prep.
DenTeach Premium Edition
The premium edition provides an instructor’s workstation (DT-Instructor) and multiple student workstations (DT-Student) to provide an identical multisensorial experience: a spatial view of the instructor’s handpiece movements allowing students to see what they cannot see in traditional teaching. This edition offers a compact design concept to ease working in your desired locations. Each unit comes with two high-speed and low-speed haptic handpieces enabling students to feel real-world dental experience. This advanced technology is suggested for DMD and DDS students as well as progressive Continuing Education (CE) courses requiring cloud technologies for remote or in-house classes.
DenTeach Standard Edition
Standard Edition’s instructor and student workstations provide an identical multisensorial experience using a low-speed handpiece that synchronizes the instructor’s handpiece movements and each student’s drill motion. This unit is more compact than the Premium version and is connected to a monitor provided by the instructor or student. The Standard edition is an excellent choice for dental hygienists and dental assistant students for remote training or in-class education.
DenTeach Basic Edition
Basic Edition allows students to experience precisely what the instructor is experiencing through visual, audio, and posture cues. All units come with an instructor’s model and a student model to provide a similar multisensorial experience. The Basic edition is our prime choice to start knowing our advanced interactive DenTeach-Instructor and DenTeach-Student applications, affordable standalone hardware with an educational one-to-one app that is downloadable for free at Microsoft Store™.
DenTeach PrepScanner
DT-PrepScanner is an automated measurement machine that uses two robotic mechanisms and laser-sensing technology to automatically measure and generate a 2D and 3D model of dental preps in interactive software. Dental instructors are able to use the machine to grade students’ dental preps in a few seconds using digital files uploaded by the scanner by clicking on different sides of the prep. There are plenty of standard rubrics available for each instructor; however, they can generate customized rubrics in their workspace. Students can also compare their work with the instructor prep and intact tooth to learn more about their dental work imperfections and improve their learning curve. The app is available for free at Microsoft Store™.
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Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University
Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University to conduct further research and beta testing of our inventions. This partnership is focused on several areas of Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), including DenTeach and iManus technologies. Dr. Kourosh Zareinia is the lead professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. While improving people’s health is his number 1 goal, Dr. Zareinia is also motivated by the economic reality of Canadian population drawing more and more on our healthcare system. For a solution, we look to robotics. “Long term, robotics can both reduce health-care costs and improve the quality of care by standardizing medical methods and treatments,” he says.
Applications of Digital Twins in the Healthcare Industry: Case Review of an IoT-Enabled Remote Technology in Dentistry
Industries are increasing their adoption of digital twins for their unprecedented ability to control physical entities and help manage complex systems by integrating multiple technologies. Recently, the dental industry has seen several technological advancements, but it is uncertain if dental institutions are making an effort to adopt digital twins in their education. In this work, we employ a mixed-method approach to investigate the added value of digital twins for remote learning in the dental industry.
We examine the extent of digital twin adoption by dental institutions for remote education, shed light on the concepts and benefits it brings, and provide an application-based roadmap for more extended adoption. We report a review of digital twins in the healthcare industry, followed by identifying use cases and comparing them with use cases in other disciplines. We compare reported benefits, the extent of research, and the level of digital twin adoption by industries. We distill the digital twin characteristics that can add value to the dental industry from the examined digital twin applications in remote learning and other disciplines. Then, inspired by digital twin applications in different fields, we propose a roadmap for digital twins in remote education for dental institutes, consisting of examples of growing complexity. We conclude this paper by identifying the distinctive characteristics of dental digital twins for remote learning.
DenTeach™ recently received a grant from NRC-IRAP to commercialize its products.
Tactile Robotics receives an NRC-IRAP grant to commercialize the DenTeach™ family, our sophisticated technology is used to achieve high precision, haptic-enabled, instructor-oriented training that utilizes its advanced hardware and software to enhance knowledge transfer from instructor to student. On behalf of our team, we’d like to thank the National Research Council of Canada for continuing to support us.
A recent grant that we received from NRC-IRAP to commercialize the DenTeach™ family, our sophisticated technology is used to achieve high precision, haptic-enabled, instructor-oriented training that utilizes its advanced hardware and software to enhance knowledge transfer from instructor to student.
DenTeach is a novel application of application of digital twins in the healthcare industry, a recent publication in Journal of Visual Worlds discusses.
Abstract: Industries are increasing their adoption of digital twins for their unprecedented ability to control physical entities and help manage complex systems by integrating multiple technologies. Recently, the dental industry has seen several technological advancements, but it is uncertain if dental institutions are making an effort to adopt digital twins in their education. In this work, we employ a mixed-method approach to investigate the added value of digital twins for remote learning in the dental industry. We examine the extent of digital twin adoption by dental institutions for remote education, shed light on the concepts and benefits it brings, and provide an application-based roadmap for more extended adoption. We report a review of digital twins in the healthcare industry, followed by identifying use cases and comparing them with use cases in other disciplines. We compare reported benefits, the extent of research, and the level of digital twin adoption by industries. We distill the digital twin characteristics that can add value to the dental industry from the examined digital twin applications in remote learning and other disciplines. Then, inspired by digital twin applications in different fields, we propose a roadmap for digital twins in remote education for dental institutes, consisting of examples of growing complexity. We conclude this paper by identifying the distinctive characteristics of dental digital twins for remote learning.
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