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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2018
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Igor Akopov, Moscow, RU;
Anton Lapshin, Nizhniy Novgorod, RU;
Samuel Blanco, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Artem Kuanbekov, Nizhniy Novgorod, RU;
Eric P. Meyer, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Andrey Maximov, Kaluzhskaya, RU;
Boris Likhtman, Pushkino, RU;
Michael Flanagan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jason Ramos, San Jose, CR;
Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US);
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adi Levin, Nes Tziona, IL;
Evgeniy Morozov, Ulyanovsk, RU;
Alexander Belous, Moscow, RU;
Olga Matusevich, Moscow, RU;
Alexander Kulinich, Nizhegorodskaya, RU;
Mikhail Nyukhtikov, Moscow, RU;
Maria Shirshova, Krasnodar, RU;
Olga Likhacheva, Moscow, RU;
Irina Ivanova, Moscow, RU;
Nikolay Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;
Vladimir Grenaderov, Moscow, RU;
Svetlana Makarenkova, Moscow, RU;
Aleksandr Zhulin, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of potential treatment plan variations for the concurrent and interactive review of the treatment plan variations. Each variation may be optimized to best address the user's treatment goals, as well as approximating as closely as possible an ideal or target final position. Also described herein are orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses that allow a user to form, modify, and select a treatment plan from a plurality of different treatment plans, in real time.