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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2020
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pavel Pokotilov, Moscow, RU;
Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Moscow, RU;
Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Novosibirsk, RU;
Samuel Blanco, Saratoga, CA (US);
David Patrick Lopes, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Jason Ramos, Heredia, CR;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provide for methods of planning restorative procedures. Methods may involve identifying an initial position of a patient's teeth based on a digital representation of the patient's teeth, and determining one or more candidate orthodontic positions for the patient's teeth, wherein each of the one or more candidate orthodontic positions is a target position of the patient's teeth being considered. Methods may further involve virtually modeling a first restorative object at a first evaluated restorative object position on one of the patient's teeth, evaluating a first amount of tooth mass removal corresponding to the first restorative object based on the first evaluated restorative object position and one of the candidate orthodontic positions, and determining a final orthodontic position and a final restorative object position based on the first amount of tooth mass removal.