High fidelity Virtual Reality Trainer for Orthognathic Surgery

PROJECT SUMMARY
The surgical community is making
an active effort to develop new approaches to surgical training in order to
compensate for limits in work hours improve outcomes for patients and improving the efficiency of learning
minimizing the risks for the patients Virtual Reality VR surgical simulators hold enormous potential in
improving the efficiency of learning
allow for unlimited practice and rehearsal of surgical procedures and have
been demonstrated to impart skills that transfer to the operating room We propose to develop a VR based
Oral and Maxillofacial OMF surgical trainer for OMF surgeons and residents that
can improve procedural
knowledge and surgical proficiency The work proposed will a develop a highly realistic VR training system in
order to
recreate as reliably as possible the visual haptic tactile ergonomic procedural and functional
aspects of OMS surgery and b perform face content and construct validation of the OMF VR surgery training
system The proposed system will allow OMF surgeons to enhance their training in few targeted complex steps
in sagittal split osteotomy SSO in a virtual environment and predict the outcome of interventional decisions
before actual surgery without any risks to the patients
Practicing surgical techniques on demand with
direct
quantitative feedback plays an essential part in developing the needed expertise to a improve the quality of
the outcomes for patients and b improve efficiency in the surgical technique thereby reducing the operating
time Virtual simulation platforms provide risk free training environment that has a huge potential to increase
the efficiency of surgical training Successful completion of this Phase I proposal will result in a Phase II SBIR
proposal focused on the clinical validation of the effectiveness of this system as a training tool for OMF surgery
residents to practice the complex steps in SSO PROJECT NARRATIVE
The surgical community is making
compensate for limits in work hours improve patient outcomes and improving the efficiency of learning
We propose to develop a highly realistic Virtual Reality based Oral and
an active effort to develop new approaches to surgical training in order to
minimizing the risk for the patients
Maxillofacial OMF surgical trainer for OMF surgeons and residents that
can improve procedural knowledge
and surgical proficiency in
sagittal split osteotomy SSO orthognathic surgery Virtual simulation platforms
provide risk free training environment that has a huge potential to increase the efficiency of surgical training