Systems and methods for generating an appliance with tie points
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsJae H. Anh, Loc X. Phan, Sheldon Baumrind, Sean Curry, Andrew Beers
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described for integrating anatomical information from a plurality of sources of information. The system receives two or more three dimensional (3D) anatomical maps sharing a common plane specified by three or more marker points common to the two or more maps; places one or more marker points on one or more teeth; generates a digital teeth model with the marker points; and aligns the two or more 3D anatomical maps and the teeth model using the marker points
Claims14
A method for integrating anatomical information from a plurality of sources of information, comprising:
- receiving two or more three dimensional (3D) anatomical maps sharing a common plane specified by three or more marker points common to the two or more maps;
- placing one or more marker points on one or more teeth;
- generating a digital model of the teeth with the marker points;
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- aligning the two or more 3D anatomical maps and the digital teeth model using the marker points.
A system, comprising:
- an appliance with one or more teeth markers embedded therein wherein each marker is a tie point;
- an X-ray camera receiving X-ray information with X-ray marker information;
- a three-dimensional digital camera receiving three-dimensional anatomical information with anatomical marker information;
- a dental scanner to generate a three-dimensional teeth model with teeth marker information;
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- a computer to align the X-ray information, 3D anatomical information, and the 3D teeth model using the marker information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.