{"id":125,"date":"2014-03-16T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/telmed\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-01-06T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:21:39","slug":"immersive-vision-theatre-ivt-dental-community-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/immersive-vision-theatre-ivt-dental-community-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive vision theatre (IVT) Dental community project"},"content":{"rendered":"

— This post was written by Tim Wheeler —<\/em><\/p>\n

In June 2013, following our 3D project for Dental Education Facilities, we were tasked with creating an innovative demo project using a 3D model of the inside of a mouth to be viewed in the Immersive vision theatre. Our demo was presented to various members of the dental team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Community Engagement Team at the Peninsula Dental School requested a demo for Wrigley\u2019s and GlaxoSmithKline as they saw potential for a community based project to help children with oral hygiene.\u00a0Shortly after, the Dental Community engagement team and TELMeD \u00a0were jointly awarded with a funding grant \u00a3120k to develop the project.<\/p>\n

We started development of the project last September with the aim to engage 6-9 year olds in the importance of cleaning their teeth in a 3D interactive immersive experience.<\/p>\n

The 3D project has taken the form of a 10-15 minute story of a giant called Geoffrey who finds that after a lifetime of scoffing sweets he finds himself in a great deal of pain with a tooth ache! Geoffrey\u2019s friend, mentor and narrator of the story \u201cMouse\u201d encourages him to go to the dentist to get it sorted out.<\/p>\n

Daisy the tooth fairy fixes Geoffrey\u2019s tooth and also gives him some helpful and friendly advice and some key messages on how to keep his teeth in good health.<\/p>\n