This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/IPD.12648 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved Title: Virtual Reality as a novel educational tool in preclinical paediatric dentistry training: Students’ perceptions Short running title: Virtual reality in pre-clinical paediatric dentistry training Authors: Sobia Zafar*, Yvonne Lai, Christopher Sexton, Allauddin Siddiqi Author Contributions: S.Z, Y.L and A.S conceived the idea, designed the study, collected the data, drafted and critically revised the study, gave final approval of the version to be published and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the study. C.S analysed and interpreted the data. Author’s institutional affiliations Dr Sobia Zafar BDS, MSc (Paediatric Dentistry), DClinDent (Paediatric Dentistry), PhD Head of Discipline Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland 288 Herston Road, Herston Qld, 4006, Australia Tel: +61 7 3365 8048 E-mail:s.zafar@uq.edu.au Work was conducted at the School of Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Australia Dr Yvonne Lai BDSc, DClinDent (Paediatric Dentistry), MRACDS(Paed) Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Australia 5005 Tel: +61 412 830 832 E-mail: yvonne.lai@adelaide.edu.au Mr Christopher Sexton (BEd, MBiostatistics) Accepted Article