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US 2008/0293003 A1Published application
Tabbed dental appliance
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsJon F. Moss, Rene M. Sterental
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Abstract
Embodiments include dental appliances, dental appliance systems, and methods of making and using such appliances. In one embodiment, a dental appliance includes a number of tooth apertures for the placement of teeth therein and a tab representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted and oriented to be received over the position of the tooth that has not fully erupted.
Claims25
A dental appliance, comprising:
- a number of tooth apertures for the placement of teeth therein;
- and
- a tab representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted and oriented to be received over the position of the tooth that has not fully erupted.
A dental appliance system, comprising:
- a first dental appliance of a number of appliances shaped to move teeth, where the first dental appliance has a tab of a first length representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted;
- and
- a second dental appliance of the number of appliances, where the second dental appliance has a tab of a second length representing a position of a tooth.
A method comprising:
- applying a first dental appliance of a number of appliances shaped to move teeth by inserting the first appliance into a mouth of a patient, where the first dental appliance has a tab of a first length representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted;
- and
- applying a second dental appliance of the number of appliances, where the second dental appliance has a tab of a second length representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted.
A computer readable medium, having instructions for causing a device to perform a method, comprising:
- designing a first dental appliance of a number of appliances shaped to move teeth by surveying the positioning of a patient's teeth within a mouth of a patient, where the first dental appliance has a tab of a first length representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted;
- and
- designing a second dental appliance of the number of appliances, where the second dental appliance has a tab of a second length representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.