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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2024
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Maria Lvova, Yerevan, AM;
Vladimir Chistyakov, Moscow, RU;
Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US);
Jeeyoung Choi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
XI Cai, San Jose, CA (US);
Palak Mittal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for forming eruption compensation (EC) features in dental appliances for accommodating erupting teeth. Methods may include scaling a virtual tooth model by identifying a crown center line along a buccal-lingual axis of the virtual tooth model, enlarging a lingual side of the virtual tooth model relative to the crown center line by a first scaling factor, and enlarging a buccal side of the virtual tooth model relative to the crown center line by a second scaling factor, where the first scaling factor is greater than the second scaling factor. The scaled virtual tooth model may be added to a 3D dental model of the subject's dentition at an EC region to form a modified 3D dental model. The modified 3D dental model including the scaled virtual tooth model corresponding to the erupting tooth may be output.