Dental Appliance On-Line Ordering Including Display Of End Product Image And Mold Three-Dimensional Scanning For Digital Transmission

A method for on-line manufacturing of dental appliances for the mouth of a patient, comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a menu of questions to a user soliciting specifying information for specifying a manufacturing process to produce said dental appliance for said patient;
• (b) transmitting by said user said specifying information to a manufacturing laboratory by way of the internet to create a user order for said dental appliance;
• (c) determining a dental appliance image of said dental appliance in accordance with said specifying information;
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• (d) manufacturing said dental appliance by said manufacturing laboratory in accordance with said transmitted specifying information to provide a manufactured dental appliance.

A method for on-line manufacturing of a dental appliance for the mouth of a patient, comprising the steps of

• (a) providing an image of the mouth of said patient;
• (b) transmitting said image to a manufacturing laboratory to provide a transmitted image;
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• (c) manufacturing said dental appliance by said manufacturing laboratory in accordance with said transmitted dental model image.