Delivering the Future of Dental Education

AlensiaXR SVP Nancy Farrow sharing the HoloAnatomy experience with ADEA attendees.

AlensiaXR & CWRU Reinventing Medical Education

The AlensiaXR team recently attended the annual gathering of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), and this year’s conference was dedicated to “reimagining the future.” As usual, the AlensiaXR booth was packed as wave after wave of professors, deans, anatomists, and students lined up to experience the future in the form of the HoloAnatomy® Software Suite.

We’ve done a lot of trade shows because the best way to communicate the transformative potential of holographic learning is to put on a mixed-reality headset and experience it first-hand.

The initial reaction is always, “WOW!”

This is generally followed by more exclamations as folks lean in and realize just how immersive this software really is as they explore the human body virtually in 3D.

People return to the AlensiaXR booth again and again, bringing colleagues, professors, and deans so they can experience HoloAnatomy for themselves (resulting in multiple wows).

The ADEA conference attracts educators and leadership from every major dental-training organization. At these events, we’re often deluged with the “holo-curious”—folks eager to witness the future of medical education.

Not only are we showing people something novel and exciting, we’re sharing a glimpse of a learning tool so useful it doubles learning speeds and retention while saving academic institutions “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

Of course the foot traffic is great, but what’s really rewarding is the conversations we have with individuals and teams who want to better understand how to integrate HoloAnatomy into their school’s curriculum.

We literally see their eyes light up as they realize how HoloAnatomy will transform their learning environments.

After this steady flow of humanity, the AlensiaXR team was quite happily exhausted by the end of the conference. Which is why we're looking to expand our team, so we can extend this experience to even more people, both in situ and remotely.

We don’t yet offer full dental courseware (it’s in the pipeline), but we do offer more than 9,000 anatomical objects, with a sufficient array of head-and-neck holograms to result in several dental institutions adopting the HoloAnatomy platform—including Meharry University, currently in the process of onboarding. When we mention early adopters, people are always eager to discover how one of the most reputable dental schools is improving learning outcomes without all the overhead of a cadaver lab.

The ADEA conference provided motivation to accelerate our formal Dental application, as well as courseware for Pathology and Physiology. That’s an important part of our charter from Case Western Reserve University, the leading light in medical education that created this extraordinary learning platform—we have the developers, anatomists, and experts we need to continue to expand the HoloAnatomy offering.

This is just the beginning of a sea change in education, and we invite you to experience it for yourself…