The Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine in Cleveland is revolutionizing dental education with a high-tech simulation lab that comes with a $2.6 million upgrade.
The state-of-the-art facility will be equipped with the latest A-dec dental simulation equipment, giving students as close to real life preclinical patient simulation curriculum in operative dentistry, prosthodontics, endodontics, digital dentistry and implant dentistry to the highest possible level.
The upgrade includes 82 dental patient simulator units featuring programmable touchpads, operating lights and operator stools identical to those used in the School of Dental Medicine Dental Clinic located on Chester Avenue.
Students will benefit from Kilgore Darwin Manikins with the new Kilgore Series 700 Typodont, simulated caries teeth and the latest Bien-Air Optima MX2 electric motor handpieces—which support dental restorative, endodontic and implant dentistry capabilities.
It's the first-of-its-kind lab in the nation and the goal is to attract some of the brightest minds to CWRU to study dentistry.