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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2012
Artem Borovinskih, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dmitriy Ten, Novosibirsk, RU;
Artem Borovinskih, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dmitriy Ten, Novosibirsk, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for determining a dental treatment difficulty are described herein. One method embodiment includes receiving an initial and subsequent position of each of a first tooth and a second tooth and calculating a change in position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth. The method embodiment can also include projecting the changes in position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth onto a reference line and calculating a change in position on the reference line for the first tooth and the second tooth. The method embodiment can further include determining the dental treatment difficulty based on the changes in position on the reference line.