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.
Claims24
A computing device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a data storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, the data storage device containing executable instructions to cause the computing device to:
- receive an image of a patient's teeth;
- define a smile inner lip line from the image of the patient's teeth and identify a number of teeth within a boundary area of the smile inner lip line as the patient's smile;
- select an image of a restored smile from a digital smile library database of images of restored smiles;
- superimpose the selected image of the restored smile over the image of the patient's teeth using the identified patient's smile;
- and
- create a dental treatment plan to create an improved smile for the patient based on the selected image of the restored smile.
A computing device implemented method for creating an improved smile, the method comprising:
- receiving an image of a patient's teeth;
- defining a smile inner lip line from the image of the patient's teeth and identifying a number of teeth within a boundary area of the smile inner lip line as the patient's smile;
- selecting an image of a restored smile from a digital smile library database of images of restored smiles;
- superimposing the selected smile image of the restored smile over the image of the patient's teeth using the identified patient's smile;
- and
- creating a dental treatment plan to create a smile for the patient based on the selected image of the restored smile.
A non-transitory computing device readable medium having executable instructions which can be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- receiving an image of a patient's teeth;
- defining a smile inner lip line from the image of the patient's teeth and identifying a number of teeth within a boundary area of the smile inner lip line as the patient's smile;
- selecting an image of a restored smile from a digital smile library database of images of restored smiles;
- superimposing the selected image of the restored smile over the image of the patient's teeth using the identified patient's smile;
- and
- creating a dental treatment plan to create an improved smile for the patient based on the selected image of the restored smile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.