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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (1206) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (1130) Usability of Virtual Reality Simulations (121) Dental Sciences (236) Design and Evaluation of Patient Education Materials (171) Perioperative Patient Education (43)

Published on in Vol 14 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/102686, first published .
Dentist explains 3D dental scan in VR headset to patient.

Immersive Virtual Reality for Patient Education in Orthodontics: Cross-Sectional Feasibility and Acceptability Study

Immersive Virtual Reality for Patient Education in Orthodontics: Cross-Sectional Feasibility and Acceptability Study

Authors of this article:

Yoo Jin Kim1 Author Orcid Image ;   Glenn Jou2 Author Orcid Image ;   Hyun Cho3 Author Orcid Image ;   Mathias Stephen Fallis2 Author Orcid Image ;   Glenn Sameshima2 Author Orcid Image
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Yoo Jin Kim   1 * , DDS ;   Glenn Jou   2 * , DDS ;   Hyun Cho   3 , MFA ;   Mathias Stephen Fallis   2 , DDS ;   Glenn Sameshima   2 , DDS, PhD

1 Center for Advanced Dental Education, Department of Orthodontics, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States

2 Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

3 Department of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Glenn Jou, DDS
  • Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
  • University of Southern California
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  • Email: gjou@usc.edu