歯科用患者ロボット : 口腔内動作と患者反応の再現

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The recent decline in the number of patients utilizing dentistry school departments for treatment, coupled with an increase in the number of dental students, has negatively affected the training regimen for students of dentistry. As a means of addressing this situation, the construction of a robot dental patient, which would simulate an actual person, has been researched. In order to reproduce the conditions, sensitivity, responses, and movements of a human mouth the following systems are required. The robot dental patient must be fitted with a sensor in its palate. A tongue mechanism, which mimics tongue movement, including those tongue movements performed during a state of vomiting, must be included in the robot. Also, a system to replicate the hemorrhaging that would occur in the event of intraoral damage has to be incorporated. Finally, in order to enhance communication between dentists and patients, a conversation function, developed to mirror greeting, interview, and examination exchanges, is required. The development of a robot dental patient provides dental schools lacking a sufficient number of actual patients a platform for students to practice in conditions very similar to a real dental treatment environment.
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