Digital dental modeling

A system for digital dental modeling, comprising:

• a three-dimensional digital dental model including a first jaw and a second jaw without information about relative positions of the first jaw and the second jaw in a bite configuration;
• a two-dimensional image of a patient's jaws corresponding to the jaws of the three-dimensional digital dental model in the bite configuration;
• and
• a correlation module configured to:
• correlate the two-dimensional image with the three-dimensional digital dental model, and
• transform a first number of points from a coordinate system associated with the two-dimensional image to a coordinate system associated with the three-dimensional digital dental model, and
• a position module associated with the correlation module and configured to:
• position the first jaw with respect to the second jaw in an initial position;
• bite set the first jaw and the second jaw of the three-dimensional digital dental model from the initial position in order to position the first jaw and the second jaw in the bite configuration based on output of the correlation module, wherein the bite set includes:
• simulating collisions between the first jaw and the second jaw;
• and
• using the transformed first number of points after the first number of points are transformed to the coordinate system associated with the three-dimensional digital dental model as targets of movement for the corresponding second number of points in the coordinate system associated with the three-dimensional dental model.