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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2023
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jon F. Moss, Antioch, CA (US);
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Dental appliance systems with appliances having eruption tabs. The dental appliance systems may include at least a first shell and a second shell each shaped to receive teeth of respective first and second jaws of a patient. The first and second shells may include respective first and second eruption tabs that extend from respective first and second posterior tooth-receiving cavities of the shells. At least one of the first and second tabs may be configured to exert a force to manage eruption of the erupting posterior tooth. The first and second tabs may include contoured exterior shapes that provide mating engagement with each other so as to support the force exerted on the erupting posterior tooth.