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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2021
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Sato, San Jose, CA (US);
Allen Boronkay, San Jose, CA (US);
Yaser Shanjani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Reza Shirazi Aghjari, San Jose, CA (US);
Avi Kopelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Jang, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jihua Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Vladimir Shelbakh, Hayward, CA (US);
Bastien Pesenti, San Jose, CA (US);
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for imaging removable dental appliances. Image data taken while a removable dental appliance was worn on a patient's teeth may be used to identify one or more locations of undesirable contact between the removable dental appliance and the patient's teeth and/or one or more attachments on the patient's teeth. The one or more locations of undesirable contact can correlate with undesirable tooth movement compared to expected tooth movement according to a treatment plan. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the removable dental appliance and the patient's teeth may be displayed on a user interface, with the identified one or more locations of undesirable contact highlighted in the 3D model. An alert of the identified one or more locations of undesirable contact may be emitted via the user interface.