Enhancing Patient Experience in Office-Based Laryngology Procedures With Passive Virtual Reality

Experience with virtual reality-based technology in teaching restorative dental procedures.

This article reports on extensive experience with advanced simulation at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine (UPSDM). Virtual reality-based technology (VRBT) or advanced simulation is currently available for the instruction of dental students in preclinical restorative procedures. UPSDM was one of the first schools in the world to have extensive experience with VRBT techno...

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Patient safety in office-based surgery facilities: I. Procedures in the office-based surgery setting.

At the ASPS Annual Meeting in October of 2000, the ASPS Board of Directors convened the Task Force on Patient Safety in Officebased Surgery Facilities. The task force was assembled in the wake of several highly publicized patient deaths, increasing state legislative/regulatory activity, and a moratorium on all level II and level III office-based surgery in the State of Florida. The task force f...

Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change

During life, many personal changes occur. These include changing house, school, work, and even friends and partners. However, the daily experience shows clearly that, in some situations, subjects are unable to change even if they want to. The recent advances in psychology and neuroscience are now providing a better view of personal change, the change affecting our assumptive world: (a) the focu...

Enhancing collaboration in virtual reality applications