Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems, methods, and apparatus for correcting malocclusions of teeth
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Application No.: US16103763Application Date: 2018-08-14
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Publication No.: US11484389B2Publication Date: 2022-11-01
- Inventor: Rene M. Sterental , Samuel Blanco , Anton Lapshin , Alexander Kulinich , Valery Prokoshev , Boris Vasilevskiy , Evgeniy Morozov , Jason Ramos
- Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Main IPC: A61C7/08
- IPC: A61C7/08 ; A61C7/00 ; B33Y50/00 ; B29C64/386

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing an appliance for correcting malocclusions of a patient's teeth. The method may include measuring the positions of a patient's teeth and receiving tooth movement constraints. The method may also include generating an initial treatment plan based on the measured tooth positions and the tooth movement constraints and measuring the malocclusions of the patient's teeth for one or more types of dental malocclusions. The method may also include generating a plurality of treatment plans from the initial treatment plan based on the measured malocclusion and generating a model of an appliance for each stage of the treatment plan. The method may also include generating instructions for fabricating the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan based on the model of the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190053876A1 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING MALOCCLUSIONS OF TEETH Public/Granted day:2019-02-21
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