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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2020
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Artem Borovinskih, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dmitriy Ten, Novosibirsk, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for determining a dental treatment difficulty in digital treatment planning. The methods may include calculating tooth position changes from an initial dental model to a target dental model in a mouth quadrant of a patient's dentition. The changes in position may be determined by projecting distances between initial positions and subsequent positions of teeth onto an arch line of the initial dental model. A treatment difficulty of anterior-posterior (A-P) correction may be determined for the mouth quadrant based on an average change in position, wherein a greater average change in position is associated with a higher treatment difficulty of A-P correction. The digital treatment plan may be adjusted so that a provider skill level meets or exceeds the treatment difficulty of A-P correction.