LONDON, UK: For dentists in training, options for honing their skills have been historically limited to phantom heads or patients at university dental clinics. Both options limit the dental student’s ability to repeat specific techniques, procedures and conditions. However, a study conducted at the Institute of Dentistry of Queen Mary University of London has found that including haptic training in the undergraduate dental programme was helpful in training for rare clinical scenarios, provided realistic feedback and allowed students to practise repeat procedures with the same patient parameters. This led to accelerated skill learning and improved confidence.