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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2020
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Andrey Chekhonin, Moscow, RU;
Boris Vasilevskiy, Ufa, RU;
Victor Rulev, Moscow, RU;
Svetlana Makarenkova, Moscow, RU;
Alexander Mikunov, Moscow, RU;
Artem Kuanbekov, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of potential treatment plan variations for the concurrent and interactive review of the treatment plan variations. Treatment settings may be determined based on initial tooth positions and may be arranged in a hierarchy of treatment settings. Each of the plurality of treatment plans may be generated based on a set of treatment settings from the hierarchy of treatment settings. Also described herein are orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses that present the plurality of treatment plans to the user to allow a user to select a treatment plan from a plurality of different treatment plans.