Patent number: 11096763
Abstract: Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of potential treatment plan variations for the concurrent and interactive review of the treatment plan variations. Each variation may be optimized to best address the user's treatment goals, as well as approximating as closely as possible an ideal or target final position. Also described herein are orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses that allow a user to form, modify, and select a treatment plan from a plurality of different treatment plans, in real time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 24, 2021
Assignee:
Align Technology, Inc.
Inventors:
Igor Akopov, Anton Lapshin, Samuel Blanco, Artem Kuanbekov, Eric P. Meyer, Andrey Maximov, Boris Likhtman, Michael Flanagan, Jason Ramos, Mitra Derakhshan, Roman A. Roschin, Rene M. Sterental, Adi Levin, Evgeniy Morozov, Alexander Belous, Olga Matusevich, Alexander Kulinich, Mikhail Nyukhtikov, Maria Shirshova, Olga Likhacheva, Irina Ivanova, Nikolay Yakovlev, Vladimir Grenaderov, Svetlana Makarenkova, Aleksandr Zhulin
