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The recent technological advances in the area of image processing and interactive computer graphics have lead to many sophisticated systems which support clinical experts in diagnosis and treatment planning tasks. In dentistry, the treatment with implants becomes more and more important. Although in the near future there will be increased demand for dentists who are trained in dental implantology, little effort has been made to introduce technologically new teaching methods into the curriculum of dentists. This paper describes the design of a virtual implant treatment planning system which is based on the concept of a three-dimensional horizontal display. The system is utilizing different VR and multimedia techniques to achieve a highly interactive virtual workbench environment which is suited for class-room experimental education in dental implantology.

During the last five years, quality development has become a most important issue in oral health care. In every day practice, quality development meets, however, a considerable number of objective obstacles, mainly due to the lack of direct access to the information necessary in a specific clinical work situation and due to the absence of knowledge on own performance in relation to quality goals. The EU-TAP project ORQUEST has identified different clinical work situations and built up an integrated ITT-platform composed of different software modules and hardware components for each clinical work situation in order to allow for adequate ITT-support in specific clinical situations.