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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2022
Applicant:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher E. Cramer, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/0053 (2013.01); A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 2007/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for analyzing a patient's dental arches in order to generate a treatment plan for the dentition. In particular described herein are methods and apparatuses for determining accurate standardized tooth numbering even when there are missing and/or supernumerary teeth.