Department of Operative Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Av. Para 1720, Bl. 4L-A, Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902, Brazil.
J Dent Educ. 2013 Mar;77(3):358-63.
Many dental students struggle for visual recognition when first exposed to the study of tooth cavity preparation in the operative dentistry laboratory. Rapid prototypes and virtual models of different cavity preparations were developed for the incoming first-year class of 2010 at the Dental School of Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, to help them to visualize the subtle differences in cavity preparations and are described in this article. Rapid prototyping techniques have been used in dental therapy, mainly for the fabrication of models to ease surgical planning in implantology, orthodontics, and maxillofacial prostheses. On the other hand, the application of these technologies associated with 3D-virtual models in dental education is waiting to be exploited, once they have significant potential to complement conventional training methods in dentistry.
许多牙科学学生在接触口腔修复学实验室的牙体预备研究时，都在努力进行视觉识别。巴西联邦大学乌鲁兰迪亚牙科学院为 2010 年即将入学的一年级学生开发了不同牙体预备的快速原型和虚拟模型，以帮助他们形象化地理解牙体预备的细微差异，本文对此加以介绍。快速原型技术已应用于牙科治疗，主要用于制作模型以方便种植牙、正畸和颌面赝复体的手术规划。另一方面，这些技术与 3D 虚拟模型的结合在牙科教育中的应用尚待开发，因为它们在很大程度上有潜力补充传统的牙科培训方法。
