- Patent Title: Restorative smile visualization through digital treatment planning
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Application No.: US17005951Application Date: 2020-08-28
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Publication No.: US11234794B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Pavel Pokotilov , Dmitry Yurievich Chekh , Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten , Samuel Blanco , David Patrick Lopes , Jason Ramos , Rene M. Sterental , Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin
- Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Main IPC: A61C7/00
- IPC: A61C7/00 ; A61C9/00 ; A61C7/08 ; G16H20/40 ; G16H50/20 ; G06T17/20 ; B33Y50/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; G16H50/50

Abstract:
The present disclosure provide for methods of planning restorative procedures. Methods may involve identifying an initial position of a patient's teeth based on a digital representation of the patient's teeth, and determining one or more candidate orthodontic positions for the patient's teeth, wherein each of the one or more candidate orthodontic positions is a target position of the patient's teeth being considered. Methods may further involve virtually modeling a first restorative object at a first evaluated restorative object position on one of the patient's teeth, evaluating a first amount of tooth mass removal corresponding to the first restorative object based on the first evaluated restorative object position and one of the candidate orthodontic positions, and determining a final orthodontic position and a final restorative object position based on the first amount of tooth mass removal.
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