Dr. Vinicius Dutra of the IU School of Dentistry has developed a virtual reality (VR) radiology training for oral health providers, designed to address both the high cost of radiology training and the low interest of many dental students in radiology.
Along with the efforts of Dr. Dutra and Oral Pathology, Medicine, and Radiology colleague Dr. Phillip Wong, members of multiple IUPUI schools collaborated on this project. Professor Zebulun Wood and Drennen Dooms from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis joined in on the project, along with multiple art students.
Wood and Dooms replicated both the objects and space within a dental office and the complex interactions and choices that a dentist navigates during patient care.