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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Smiledirectclub Llc, Nashville, TN (US);

Inventors:

Jordan Katzman, Nashville, TN (US);

Alex Fenkell, Nashville, TN (US);

David Katzman, Nashville, TN (US);

Christopher Yancey, Nashville, TN (US);

Josh Chapman, Nashville, TN (US);

Jessica Cicurel, Nashville, TN (US);

Assignee:

SmileDirectClub LLC, Nashville, TN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/20 (2018.01); A61C 7/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/20 (2018.01); A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 7/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); A61B 6/145 (2013.01); A61C 9/0053 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods include determining, by an appointment management system, a condition that an appointment to conduct an intraoral scan at an intraoral scanning site has been missed by a user, automatically generating a message to the user based on the condition that indicates that an at-home impression kit will be sent to the user, sending the automatically generated message to the user, sending the at-home impression kit to the user, receiving the at-home impression kit from the user, and producing, at a fabrication site, a plurality of aligners based on the received at-home impression kit where the plurality of aligners are specific to the user and are configured to reposition one or more teeth of the user in accordance with a treatment plan.


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