Rate My Professor Margrit Maggio

Margrit Maggio, DMD, serves as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Clinical Professor, and Director of Simulation Learning at High Point University's Workman School of Dental Medicine. She earned a B.A. in Pre-Dental/Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and a Doctor of Dental Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Bringing more than 30 years of clinical practice experience and over 20 years as an academic clinical faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Maggio previously held roles such as Assistant Professor of Restorative Dentistry, Director of Preclinical Dentistry, Director of Advanced Simulation Lab, and Director of Operative Dentistry. In these capacities, she taught foundational dentistry skills and advanced simulation techniques to prepare students for clinical practice.

Dr. Maggio's research specializations and academic interests focus on haptics simulation in dentistry, restorative and operative dentistry, and enhancing practice readiness for dental students. At High Point University, she provides strategic leadership for academic programs, advances innovative simulation-based education, shapes curriculum development, and enhances simulation learning environments to foster academic rigor and hands-on experiential training. She is a Fellow of the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute. Her key publications include "Benefits and challenges of the integration of haptics-enhanced virtual reality training within dental curricula" (Journal of Dental Education, 2025), "Optimizing Preclinical Skill Assessment for Handpiece-Naïve Students Using Haptic Devices" (Dentistry Journal, 2025), "Enhancing Dental Education through Virtual Reality and Haptic Technologies" (2025), "Shaping the Future of Dentistry: How Digital VR-Haptic Simulators Are Revolutionizing Dental Training" (2025), and contributions to establishing the VR-haptic thinkers group. With 189 citations on ResearchGate, her work significantly impacts the adoption of virtual reality and haptics in dental education globally.