Smile designer
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsMichelle STONE-COLLONGE, Eric E. KUO, Rick M. MATTY, Fabio PETTINATI, Thomas MAURER, Dzmitry SANKO
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Abstract
Various methods and systems for designing a restored smile are provided. One method includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data, creating a dental treatment plan to restore one or more teeth from an initial condition to a successive condition, and wherein a final condition of the one or more is based on the one or more teeth having at least one planned additional restorative tooth structure provided therewith.
Claims30
A computer-implemented method of, the method comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- receiving, from a user, information identifying one or more key features from the 2D image of the patient's face to determine a reference on the patient's face, wherein the key features include at least one of:
- a line between the patient's pupils, a facial midline, and a dental midline;
- displaying the reference on the 2D image of the patient's face;
- receiving a selected region from the 2D image;
- receiving adjustments to a three-dimensional (3D) digital model of the patient's teeth, wherein the 3D digital model is taken from a digital scan of the patient's teeth;
- combining the 3D digital model of the patient's teeth with facial features from the 2D image of the patient's teeth to illustrate the effects of a treatment plan.
A computer-implemented method of, the method comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- receiving, from a user, information identifying one or more key features from the 2D image of the patient's face to determine a reference on the patient's face;
- displaying the reference on the 2D image of the patient's face;
- adjusting the rotation of the 2D image of the patient's face;
- receiving a selected region within the patient's inner lip contour from the 2D image;
- receiving a three-dimensional (3D) digital model of the patient's teeth taken from a digital scan of the patient's teeth;
- modifying the 3D model of the patient's teeth;
- combining the modified 3D model of the patient's teeth with facial features from the 2D image of the patient's teeth to illustrate the effects of a treatment plan.
The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more lines extends between the patient's pupils.
The method of claim 18, further comprising generating an image with the improved smile superimposed over the patient's smile.
The method of claim 20, further comprising providing a tool for toggling between the 2D image of the patient's face and the combined image.
A computing device readable medium having executable instructions which can be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- receiving, from a user, information identifying one or more key features from the 2D image of the patient's face to determine a reference on the patient's face, wherein the key features include at least one of:
- a line between the patient's pupils, a facial midline, and a dental midline;
- displaying the reference on the 2D image of the patient's face;
- receiving a selected region from the 2D image;
- receiving adjustments to a three-dimensional (3D) digital model of the patient's teeth, wherein the 3D digital model is taken from a digital scan of the patient's teeth;
- combining the 3D digital model of the patient's teeth with facial features from the 2D image of the patient's teeth to generating a combined image with the patient's inner lip contour.
A computing device readable medium having executable instructions which can be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- receiving, from a user, information identifying one or more key features from the 2D image of the patient's face to determine a reference on the patient's face;
- displaying the reference on the 2D image of the patient's face;
- adjusting the rotation of the 2D image of the patient's face;
- receiving a selected region within the patient's inner lip contour from the 2D image;
- receiving a three-dimensional (3D) digital model of the patient's teeth taken from a digital scan of the patient's teeth;
- modifying the 3D model of the patient's teeth;
- combining the modified 3D model of the patient's teeth with facial features from the 2D image of the patient's teeth to illustrate the effects of a treatment plan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.