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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2023
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric E. Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US);
Crystal Tjhia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Yau, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Allen R. Boronkay, San Jose, CA (US);
Chunhua Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gleb Krivovyaz, Moscow, RU;
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include identifying a jaw position of a misaligned jaw of a patient from the virtual image of the patient's jaw and providing a treatment plan. The treatment plan may include tooth repositioning forces and jaw repositioning forces. The method may also include virtually modeling application of jaw repositioning forces between a first repositioning jaw element and a second repositioning jaw element to obtain a virtual model of the application of the jaw repositioning forces on the virtual model of the patient's jaw, identifying one or more constraints limiting the application of the jaw repositioning forces to the misaligned jaw, and adjusting the first repositioning jaw element and the second repositioning jaw element to accommodate the one or more constraints.