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 implemented method for designing a smile, the method comprising:
- receiving scan data of a patient's teeth;
- developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via the computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data;
- receiving image data of a smile of the patient including at least a frontal image of a patient's lips defining the smile and teeth of the patient that are visible between the lips in the smile data;
- mapping a number of reference points in the image data of the smile and creating a line that intersects the reference points that defines an inner lip line of the smile;
- creating a dental treatment plan for the digital model of the patient's teeth to move one or more of the patient's teeth from an initial condition through a number of successive conditions to a final condition;
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- combining the digital model of the patient's teeth with the image data of the smile of the patient including the inner lip line of the smile to provide the smile as it would appear in the final condition according to the inner lip line and the digital model in the final condition.
A computing system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a data storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, the data storage device containing executable instructions to cause a computing device to:
- receive scan data of a patient's teeth;
- develop a digital model of the patient's teeth, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data;
- receive image data of a smile of the patient including at least a frontal image of a patient's lips defining the smile and teeth of the patient that are visible between the lips in the smile data;
- map a number of reference points in the image data of the smile and creating a line that intersects the reference points that defines an inner lip line of the smile;
- create a dental treatment plan for the digital model of the patient's teeth to move one or more of the patient's teeth from an initial condition through a number of successive conditions to a final condition;
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- combine the digital model of the patient's teeth with the image data of the smile of the patient including the inner lip line of the smile to provide the smile as it would appear in the final condition according to the inner lip line and the digital model in the final condition.
A computing device readable medium storing instructions that are executable to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- receiving scan data of a patient's teeth;
- developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via the computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data;
- receiving image data of a smile of the patient including at least a frontal image of a patient's lips defining the smile and teeth of the patient that are visible between the lips in the smile data;
- mapping a number of reference points in the image data of the smile and creating a line that intersects the reference points that defines an inner lip line of the smile;
- creating a dental treatment plan for the digital model of the patient's teeth to move one or more of the patient's teeth from an initial condition through a number of successive conditions to a final condition;
- and
- combining the digital model of the patient's teeth with the image data of the smile of the patient including the inner lip line of the smile to provide the smile as it would appear in the final condition according to the inner lip line and the digital model in the final condition.
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