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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jeeyoung Choi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chunhua Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Morton, San Jose, CA (US);
Bastien Pesenti, San Jose, CA (US);
Vadim Matov, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Beliaev, Moscow, RU;
Petr Ushanov, Khimki, RU;
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for and media with instruction to cause acquiring known dimensions of a tooth, applying a multivariant regression model using the known dimensions to calculate projected dimensions of the unerupted or erupting tooth, customizing a standard virtual geometry and/or a predefined virtual geometry using the projected dimensions of the unerupted or erupting tooth, and inserting the customized virtual geometry into a virtual model of the patient's jaw, and planning the movement of the teeth of the patient and designing a series of removable orthodontic aligners using the virtual model, the series of removable orthodontic aligners configured to be worn by the patient to incrementally align the teeth according to the planned movement.