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US 8,099,305 B2Granted
Dental data mining
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsEric E. Kuo, Philippe De Smedt, Cuong Van Nguyen, Christopher W. Overton
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed providing a database comprising a compendium of at least one of patient treatment history; orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics; employing a data mining technique for interrogating said database for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating a patient malocclusion with an orthodontic treatment; and applying the output data stream to improve a dental appliance or a dental appliance usage.
Claims34
A method of monitoring an orthodontic treatment plan, comprising:
- receiving a model of at least one tooth of a patient;
- creating a treatment plan that includes a tooth path segment for the at least one tooth of the patient, the tooth path segment having an initial position and a target position;
- creating a finite element model of a first candidate dental appliance of a particular type to be positioned on the at least one tooth of the patient to achieve a particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan;
- computing an effect of the first candidate dental appliance on the at least one tooth using a data mining technique that identifies treatment plans for comparable initial positions and clinical restraints from a database and extracts information including statistically significant treatment outcomes achieved for the identified treatment plans, where the database includes at least one of patient treatment histories, orthodontic therapies, and orthodontic information and diagnostics;
- outputting in response to determining that the position is sufficiently close to the target position, a data stream including the finite element model for manufacture of the first candidate dental appliance;
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- creating, in response to determining that the position is not sufficiently close to the target position, a finite element model of a second candidate dental appliance of the particular type to achieve the particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan.
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A new data mining system for an orthodontic treatment plan for moving a tooth, comprising:
- a database comprising data including at least one of treatment plans, outcomes achieved for the treatment plans, patient treatment history;
- orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics;
- software configured for creating a treatment plan that includes a tooth path segment for at least one tooth of a patient, the tooth path segment having an initial position and a target position;
- software configured for creating a finite element model of a first candidate dental appliance of a particular type to be positioned on the at least one tooth of the patient to achieve a particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan;
- software configured for computing an effect of the first candidate dental appliance on the at least one tooth using a data mining technique that identifies treatment plans for comparable initial positions and clinical restraints from the database and extracts information including statistically significant treatment outcomes achieved for the identified treatment plans;
- software configured for determining whether the at least one tooth will reach a position sufficiently close to the target position based on the computed effect of the first candidate dental appliance on the at least one tooth;
- software configured for outputting, in response to determining that the position is sufficiently close to the target position, a data stream including the finite element model for manufacture of the first candidate dental appliance;
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- software configured for creating, in response to determining that the position is not sufficiently close to the target position, a finite element model of a second candidate dental appliance of the particular type to achieve the particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan.
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A method of forming an orthodontic treatment plan, comprising:
- receiving a model of at least one tooth of a patient;
- creating a treatment plan that includes a tooth path segment for the at least one tooth of the patient, the tooth path segment having an initial position and a target position;
- creating a finite element model of a first candidate dental appliance of a particular type to be positioned on the at least one tooth of the patient to achieve a particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan;
- computing an effect of the first candidate dental appliance on the at least one tooth using a data mining technique that identifies treatment plans for comparable initial positions and clinical restraints from a database and extracts information including statistically significant treatment outcomes achieved for the identified treatment plans, where the database includes at least one of patient treatment histories, orthodontic therapies, and orthodontic information and diagnostics;
- determining whether the at least one tooth will reach a position sufficiently close to the target position based on the computed effect of the first candidate dental appliance on the at least one tooth;
- outputting, in response to determining that the position is sufficiently close to the target position, a data stream including the finite element model for manufacture of the first candidate dental appliance;
- and
- creating, in response to determining that the position is not sufficiently close to the target position, a finite element model of a second candidate dental appliance of the particular type to achieve the particular tooth path segment of the treatment plan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.