Virtual Learning Object for Teaching Processes in Dental Prosthesis Modeling Recreating Digital Models

"Corporación Universitaria Autónoma de Nariño (AUNAR) Villavicencio" offers Dental Mechanics as a career to Llanos Orientales region (middle est) of Colombia. Currently, the creation of dental prostheses is an artisan work made by students without to implement digital processes. Industry advances are focused on computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (known as CADCAM) for the digital fabrication of dental pieces, improving times, costs and product quality. Is very important to give tools to the student that allow them understand new techniques to create the dental rehabilitations. For this reason an interinstitutional research work is developed between the Corporación Universitaria Autónoma de Nariño AUNAR with the programs of Dental Mechanics and Computer Engineering and the "Corporación Universitaria del Meta UNIMETA" with the participation of the Systems Engineering program, seeking the analysis and operation of the process CADCAM. For this work, photogrammetry techniques are used to capture models of dental works elaborated by the students of dental mechanics, then they are processed in three-dimensional modeling software and subsequently the models are printed on 3D printers. As a result of the research, a virtual learning object is developed that allows students of the first semesters of the Dental Mechanics program to learn the results of dental work with 3D models prepared by students in the last semester.