Determining a dental treatment difficulty

A computing device implemented method of determining a dental treatment difficulty, comprising:

• using a computing device to perform:
• receiving an initial and subsequent position of each of a first tooth and a second tooth;
• calculating a change in position of the first tooth and the second tooth between the initial position and the subsequent position;
• projecting the changes in position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth onto a reference line;
• calculating an average change in position on the reference line for the first tooth and the second tooth;
• and
• determining a dental treatment difficulty level based on the average change in position on the reference line and assigning a color to the treatment difficulty level.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions that can be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to:

• receive an initial position of a first tooth and an initial position of a second tooth;
• receive a subsequent position of the first tooth and a subsequent position of the second tooth;
• calculate a change in position of the first tooth between the initial position and the subsequent position and a change in position of the second tooth between the initial position and the subsequent position;
• project the changes in position of the first tooth and the second tooth onto a reference line;
• calculate an average change in position on the reference line for the first tooth and the second tooth;
• present a dental treatment difficulty as a color assigned to a dental treatment difficulty level in which the dental treatment difficulty fits based on the average change in position on the reference line.

A system for determining a dental treatment difficulty, comprising:

• a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory to execute the computer-readable instructions to:
• compute a change in position between an initial position and a subsequent position of each of a first tooth and a second tooth;
• project the changes in position for each of the first tooth and the second tooth from the initial position to the subsequent position onto a reference line;
• calculate an average change in position of the first tooth and the second tooth in relation to the reference line;
• and
• determine a dental treatment difficulty level of the initial to subsequent position based on the average change in position and assign a color to the treatment difficulty level.