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US 2002/0119423 A1Published application
System and method for positioning teeth
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsMuhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system.
Claims78
A method for fitting a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system of a patient, comprising:
- providing a static occlusion determined from a computer representation of the masticatory system;
- modeling an ideal set of teeth;
- automatically applying the ideal set of teeth to the computer representation of the masticatory system of the patient;
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- optimizing the position of the patient's teeth to fit the ideal set of teeth.
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A method for fitting a patient's teeth, comprising:
- scanning the teeth to generate a computer representation of the teeth;
- determining an occlusion from the computer representation of the teeth;
- generating one or more appliances for the teeth in response to the determined occlusion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.