Got DentSim?

[Yah-E]

DentSim is a virtual simulation machine made by DenX that is invading US dental school's restorative education by storm:

So, I'm wondering, does your school "Do" DentSim?

Here's a list of US dental schools that has DentSims that I'm aware of:

Temple
Nova (just got them)
Columbia
U Penn
Case Western (just got them)
University of Tennessee
University of Manitoba

Here's the official web:

http://www.denx.com/dentsim_work_flow.html

Here are couple of more school links:

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/news/in-vivo/Vol1_Iss21_dec18_02/dental_education.html

http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/dent-sim.htm

http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?too=100&eve=8&sec=2&npa=3321

http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/11-15-01/news.html

http://www.dental.upenn.edu/about/news/dentsim-020199.html

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[ItsGavinC]

We have the newest equipment here at ASDOH, but DentSim is one thing we do NOT have.

 

[Yah-E]

G:

Wait a year or two, your school may just jump on the DentSim bandwagon. In the mean time, you have enough new gadgets and curriculum style to make all of our jaw drop! (relaxation of masseter, medial ptyergoids and temporalis along with contraction of digastrics and lateral ptyergoids)

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[c132]

bragger

 

[tinker bell]

UCSF also just installed brand new dentsim this summer. About a dozen of them.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by Yah-E
G:

Wait a year or two, your school may just jump on the DentSim bandwagon. In the mean time, you have enough new gadgets and curriculum style to make all of our jaw drop! (relaxation of masseter, medial ptyergoids and temporalis along with contraction of digastrics and lateral ptyergoids)

A

A:

Aren't differentiated facial muscles a spectacular thing?

 

[Yah-E]

Temple
Nova
Columbia
U Penn
Case Western
University of Tennessee
University of Manitoba
UCSF
Tufts
UDMercy

If you all know anymore, please list.

 

[drPheta]

Yay...Tufts has it

 

[Prettygirl]

Originally posted by c132
bragger

Definately bragging!

 

[avineri]

The DentSim as far as I know was (is) developed by DenX, here is Jerusalem - Israel.

Makes me proud !!

 

[Qoo]

Baylor, TX also has it too!

 

[scandalouslj]

Actually the Dent sim was invented at Upenn, which is kinda amazing becuase this is the first year we at Upenn are actually using them! I know alot of other schools like Minnesotta, and Indiana have a few but dont use them. I guess you can use them on your free time if you have any!

 

[aphistis]

...we have DentSims sitting around somewhere?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by scandalouslj
Actually the Dent sim was invented at Upenn, which is kinda amazing becuase this is the first year we at Upenn are actually using them! I know alot of other schools like Minnesotta, and Indiana have a few but dont use them. I guess you can use them on your free time if you have any!

Sorry, but that is incorrect. It was invented in Israel, by the DenX corporation. DenX has US headquarters, and UPenn might be the first US school where they placed the DentSims, but they were NOT invented there.

 

[ItsGavinC]

As a sidenote, our Sim-lab KaVo mannequins have all the same built-in features as do the DentSim machines.

 

[Firm]

Dent Sim sucks. We have 40 of them at Tennessee, they aways break, and they don't grade you accurately. The sensors are in the handpiece, so you have to hold if funky in order not to block the computer from reading them.

 

[scandalouslj]

Yeah in my interview I was told you guys had like 1 or 2 dents ims in the basement at IUSD.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by scandalouslj
Yeah in my interview I was told you guys had like 1 or 2 dents ims in the basement at IUSD.

What does that have to do with TN?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Ahh, a response to Bill's post. Nevermind.

 

[aphistis]

I'll have to ask Drs. McDonald and Van Dis about them. I wonder why they're collecting dust instead of being used for productive instruction.

 

[Bickle]

Originally posted by Firm
Dent Sim sucks. We have 40 of them at Tennessee, they aways break, and they don't grade you accurately. The sensors are in the handpiece, so you have to hold if funky in order not to block the computer from reading them.

When I went to my Temple interview last Feb, I heard all the students echo these same thoughts on dentsim. Is it really that bad?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Perhaps the instruction they provide was more fun and not so much instruction, Bill.