Our story
The Simodont story
As a passionate and specialist team we work hard on our mission to extend and optimize virtual reality in dental training. Still learning new things every day, we really enjoy what we do and we enjoy working with dental schools all around the world. We strongly believe in personal contact to keep growing the Simodont and its possibilities, making education better and life easier for teachers, students and their future patients.
Starting out as a small team of simulation engineers, we are proud to have now grown into a complete company doing development, manufacturing, sales and support worldwide from our basecamp in Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands.
Our mission
We want to offer students, teachers and dental schools a platform for better, safer and more productive dental training.
With our passion for technology we want to make the highest quality virtual reality technology meaningful and accessible to improve dental education.
We develop this by working closely with dental schools, teachers, and technology partners, providing a platform for fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas and methods.
We master the possibilities of technology, but we also understand the limitations. This way we focus on truly meaningful applications and innovations, and on closing the gap between the pre-clinic and clinic.
Our history
More than 10 years ago we started as part of Moog Inc., the world market leader in flight simulation technology. For the first time ever we applied professional flight simulation technology for dental and medical simulation. This pioneering resulted in Simodont, the first and only truly high precision virtual reality dental trainer in the world.
Development was done in close cooperation with ACTA, the Academic Center for Dentistry in Amsterdam, and to this day ACTA remains an important development partner. A wide range of dental schools continue to provide their input into the educational software and the fine tuning of the haptic performance (the sense of touch).
The first prototype Simodont was made of high-tech technology packaged in wooden planks, showing that the concept worked. Much effort has been put in growing the design and ergonomics further and over the years the design has been refined, based on the proven strong initial foundation.
The past 10 years the number of schools around the world using Simodont has steadily increased and our earliest customers are still active Simodont users.
Nissin Dental Products Inc. acquired the Simodont business from Moog Inc. in November 2018. The development, manufacturing, sales and support now benefit from Nissin’s dental expertise and global network. The long-term family spirit of Nissin fitting closely with the spirit of the Simodont team.
Our story
The Simodont story
As a passionate and specialist team we work hard on our mission to extend and optimize virtual reality in dental training. Still learning new things every day, we really enjoy what we do and we enjoy working with dental schools all around the world. We strongly believe in personal contact to keep growing the Simodont and its possibilities, making education better and life easier for teachers, students and their future patients.
Starting out as a small team of simulation engineers, we are proud to have now grown into a complete company doing development, manufacturing, sales and support worldwide from our basecamp in Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands.
Our mission
We want to offer students, teachers and dental schools a platform for better, safer and more productive dental training.
With our passion for technology we want to make the highest quality virtual reality technology meaningful and accessible to improve dental education.
We develop this by working closely with dental schools, teachers, and technology partners, providing a platform for fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas and methods.
We master the possibilities of technology, but we also understand the limitations. This way we focus on truly meaningful applications and innovations, and on closing the gap between the pre-clinic and clinic.
Our history
More than 10 years ago we started as part of Moog Inc., the world market leader in flight simulation technology. For the first time ever we applied professional flight simulation technology for dental and medical simulation. This pioneering resulted in Simodont, the first and only truly high precision virtual reality dental trainer in the world.
Development was done in close cooperation with ACTA, the Academic Center for Dentistry in Amsterdam, and to this day ACTA remains an important development partner. A wide range of dental schools continue to provide their input into the educational software and the fine tuning of the haptic performance (the sense of touch).
The first prototype Simodont was made of high-tech technology packaged in wooden planks, showing that the concept worked. Much effort has been put in growing the design and ergonomics further and over the years the design has been refined, based on the proven strong initial foundation.
The past 10 years the number of schools around the world using Simodont has steadily increased and our earliest customers are still active Simodont users.
Nissin Dental Products Inc. acquired the Simodont business from Moog Inc. in November 2018. The development, manufacturing, sales and support now benefit from Nissin’s dental expertise and global network. The long-term family spirit of Nissin fitting closely with the spirit of the Simodont team.
Meet the team
The Simodont team
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Our technology
In dental education
Simodont uses similar high-end technology as also used in multi-million dollar flight simulators, used by professional pilots for flight training. The feeling of the control column used to fly an aircraft must be exactly reproduced in these simulators. This requires a sophisticated system of force sensors, control electronics, computers, software and precision mechanisms.
