Apparatuses and methods assisting in dental therapies
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorChristopher Eric CRAMER
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Abstract
Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for recommending tooth leveling (e.g., one or more of anterior leveling, posterior leveling, and arch-shape recommendations) for orthodontic devices and methods for patients. Factors involved in the leveling of teeth can include symmetry, doctor preferences, preferences regarding gender, the country in which the patient is being treated, and other issues related to the aesthetics of the mouth and arch shape. The device can comprise an aligner configured to fit over a patient's teeth. Methods of designing and manufacturing aligners based on leveling recommendations are also provided.
Claims33
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- gathering patient data of a patient to receive orthodontic treatment in accordance with an orthodontic treatment plan;
- associating the patient data with a patient type identifier of a patient type related to the patient, the patient type representing a larger group of orthodontic treatment patients under which to group the patient;
- using the doctor identifier and the patent type identifier to identify a leveling recommendation, the leveling recommendation being derived from one or more latent leveling factors, the latent leveling factors providing a latent statistical basis to associate a first set of the historic leveling parameters with a first set of doctors in a first dataset and further providing a basis to associate a second set of historical leveling parameters with a first set of patient types in a second dataset;
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- providing instructions to display the leveling recommendation.
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory configured to store computer-program instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, implement a computer-implemented method, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- gathering patient data of a patient to receive orthodontic treatment in accordance with an orthodontic treatment plan;
- associating the patient data with a patient type identifier of a patient type related to the patient, the patient type representing a larger group of orthodontic treatment patients under which to group the patient;
- using the doctor identifier and the patent type identifier to identify a leveling recommendation, the leveling recommendation being derived from one or more latent leveling factors, the latent leveling factors providing a latent statistical basis to associate a first set of the historic leveling parameters with a first set of doctors in a first dataset and further providing a basis to associate a second set of historical leveling parameters with a first set of patient types in a second dataset;
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- providing instructions to display the leveling recommendation.
A method for providing a leveling recommendation to a doctor for a patient's teeth, the method comprising:
- inputting into a computing system an initial anterior leveling dataset of the patient's anterior teeth;
- inputting into the computing system an incisor preference (bpref) received from the doctor regarding a leveling position of lateral incisors;
- obtaining with the computing system an average anterior leveling (μ) dataset derived from a plurality of patients;
- determining a final leveling dataset based on the initial anterior leveling dataset, the incisor preference received from the doctor and the average anterior leveling dataset;
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- displaying, to the doctor, a final leveling recommendation from the final leveling dataset.
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