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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Avi Kopelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Allen Boronkay, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Webber, Lafayette, CA (US);
Vadim Matov, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivas Kaza, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Kimura, San Jose, CA (US);
Yaser Shanjani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for digitally designing a plurality of aligners are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an intraoral scan of the patient's teeth, and generating 3D dental model of the patient's teeth using the intraoral scan. The method can include identifying a movement path to move the patient's teeth from an initial arrangement toward a target arrangement through a plurality of intermediate arrangements in accordance with a treatment plan. The method can also include identifying one or more appliance features of at least one aligner, the one or more appliance features including one or more feature regions having one or more feature thicknesses. The method can further include instructing an additive manufacturing machine to directly fabricate the at least one aligner in a layer-by-layer fashion.