Resumen:
A descriptive exploratory study was performed at the Universidad Europea with a sample of 22 professors of dentistry with a distinguished career in simulation. A community of practice was created for collaborative learning using the Simodont® Dental Trainer, a dental training simulator developed by Moog and the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) that combines haptic and virtual reality interfaces. A post-experimental questionnairewas administered to assess the performance of the Simondont® and to determine whether or not the professors would be willing to incorporate it into their curriculum. IBM SPSS Statistics V21.0 software was used for the data analysis and statistics of mean,standard deviation and correlation of the results. Tables were developed applying Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Kruskal-Wallis tests, and the established level of significance was 95%. The results indicated that the educational contributions of the Simodont® exceeded its technical features. An inverse relationship was described between the variables Age and Ease of use of the simulator. It became ...