DIGITAL PATIENT SCANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250073003
A dental scanning system may include an intraoral scanner and an extraoral imaging device including a color imaging camera couplable in electronic communication with the intraoral scanner. The system may include non-transitory computer readable medium with instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the system to carry out a method. The method may include capturing 2D image data of a patient's face and teeth with the extraoral imaging device, capturing intraoral 3D image data…
ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING BASED ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250072999
A method comprises receiving, by a processing device, clinical data of a first state of one or more dental arches of a patient. The method further comprises determining, by the processing device, one or more stages of an orthodontic treatment plan for correcting the one or more dental arches based on processing of the clinical data. Determining a stage of the orthodontic treatment plan comprises determining one or more actions to be performed with respect to the one or more dental arches…
METHODS OF FORMING ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES HAVING A RIDGE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250049538
A method may include generating a model of an orthodontic appliance having a shell having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and reposition the patient's teeth. At least one of the cavities may be shaped to apply a resilient repositioning force to move at least one of the patient's teeth from a current arrangement toward a target arrangement. The method may include forming a ridge on the at least one of the cavities having a width and a length greater than the width. The ridge…
SYSTEMS FOR THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF PROVISIONAL AND PERMANENT CROWNS
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250017705
A method for preparing a tooth crown may include generating a 3D model of an external surface of a patient's tooth and generating a 3D model of an external surface of a first crown based on the 3D model of the external surface of the patient's tooth. The method may also include preparing the patient's tooth to receive the first crown while generating the 3D model of the external surface. A 3D model of the prepared tooth my be generated. A 3D model of an internal surface of the first…
METHODS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF DENTAL DEVICES USING PHOTOPOLYMER RESINS
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010541
Strategies that reduce shrinkage and ultimately warping of parts that are directly fabricated from photopolymer resins. This increases the accuracy of directly fabricated parts, which is essential for patient specific applications. Implementing these strategies can reduce the need for directly fabricated parts to have supporting structures, which can reduce pre-processing and post-processing steps and facilitate an easier route for production level scale of additive manufacturing.
DENTAL APPLIANCE WITH REPOSITIONING JAW ELEMENTS
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250009478
The present disclosure provides method, computing device readable medium, and devices for dental appliances with repositioning jaw elements. An example of a method can include identifying a misaligned jaw of a patient from a virtual image of the patient's jaw, providing a treatment plan for the patient including a virtual model of a dental appliance having a first shell and a second shell configured to reposition at least one tooth of the patient, and adjusting the position of the…
ALIGNER MATERIAL, CLEANLINESS, AND QUALITY DETECTION VIA ALIGNER CASE
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240415614
Embedded sensors and onboard or off-board processing in an aligner case can detect aligner material and/or quality. Material detection can be used for counterfeit detection, or to trigger material specific events. Quality detection can include detection of common aligner failures or defects. A case for a dental appliance may include a tray for supporting the dental appliance, a cover coupled to the tray, and at least one sensor to detect a deformation of the dental appliance. A case for…
METHODS FOR MANDIBULAR RELOCATION
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240415613
The disclosed computer-implemented method for selecting locations of mandibular relocation features (MRFs) on oral appliances may include determining candidate locations for placing an MRF on a first oral appliance for a first stage of mandibular relocation (MR) treatment and determining candidate locations for placing an MRF on a second oral appliance for a second stage. The method may include selecting from the candidate locations for the first stage and the second stage based on…
VISUAL PROSTHETIC AND ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240415612
Systems and methods for improved visual prosthetic and orthodontic treatment planning are provided herein. In some aspects, a method for preparing a tooth of a patient is disclosed. The method may comprise building a model of a dentition of the patient including a model of the initial shape of tooth. The method may also include determining a final prepared shape of the tooth. In some aspects, the method may also include generating a treatment plan comprising a plurality of steps to…
CLINICALLY RELEVANT ANONYMIZATION OF PHOTOS AND VIDEO
Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number:
20240412848
The disclosed systems and methods for anonymizing clinical data may include receiving representation data corresponding to a body part. The representation data may include a clinically relevant region and an anonymization region. The method may include extracting, from the representation data, clinical representation data corresponding to the clinically relevant region of the representation data and generating artificial representation data corresponding to the anonymization region of…
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING MALOCCLUSIONS OF TEETH
Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number:
20240398511
Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing an appliance for correcting malocclusions of a patient's teeth. The method may include measuring the positions of a patient's teeth and receiving tooth movement constraints. The method may also include generating an initial treatment plan based on the measured tooth positions and the tooth movement constraints and measuring the malocclusions of the patient's teeth for one or more types of dental malocclusions. The method may also include…
REMOTE ORTHODONTIC PROGRESS TRACKING USING PHYSICAL BITE IMPRESSIONS
Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number:
20240398510
Remote progress tracking of orthodontic treatment may include receiving a 3D digital model of a patient's dentition including the patient's teeth. A 3D digital model of an impression of occlusal surfaces of the patient's teeth may be generated. The teeth of the 3D digital model of the patient's dentition may be registered to the position and orientation of the patient's teeth in the 3D digital model of the impression of the occlusal surfaces of the patient's teeth. An updated 3D digital…
OXYGEN SATURATION MAPPING FOR INTRAORAL SCANNING
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240374180
A system of generating a blood oxygen saturation map of a patient's gingiva may include an intraoral scanner, a display, a processor, and memory comprising instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor may cause the system to generate, using the intraoral scanner, 3D scan data of a first portion of a dentition of a patient including a first portion of a gingiva of the patient. The system may generate, using the intraoral scanner, blood oxygen saturation data for the first…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING FOOD TRAPS
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240374144
A system for treating food traps may include an intraoral scanner and a processor coupled in electronic communication with the intraoral scanner, a processor, and memory comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the system to carry out a method. The method may include receiving a 3D digital model of a patient's detention and analyzing the 3D digital model of the patient's detention by detecting anatomic structures in the 3D digital model of the patient's detention…
DIRECT FABRICATION OF MIXED METAL AND POLYMER PALATAL DEVICES
Granted: October 31, 2024
Application Number:
20240358477
A system may include a body having a palatal portion of a first material and a surface shaped to match a shape of a patient's palate and extending between first tooth engagement structures shaped to engage teeth on a first side of a patient's arch and second tooth engagement structures shaped to engage teeth on a second side of a patient's arch and a reinforcement structure within the palatal portion, wherein the reinforcement structure includes at least one fiber fabricated of a second…
METHODS FOR GENERATING DENTAL MODELS AND APPLIANCES
Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number:
20240350230
A method of treating a patient's dentition may include generating, from a first 3D model of a first physical impression of a first arch of a patient and a second 3D model of a second physical impression of a first arch of the patient, a reconstructed 3D model of the first arch of the patient by incorporating one or more portions of the first 3D model with one or more portions of the second 3D model and creating a treatment plan for the patient's dentition using the first 3D model. The…
SYSTEMS FOR USING INTRAORAL RESCAN DATA FOR DENTAL PROCEDURES
Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number:
20240350017
A system for accounting for changes in surface topology may include an intraoral scanner and a computer system comprising instructions that, when executed, causes the computer system to: receive initial scan data of a first surface portion of tissue and a second surface portion of tissue, the scan data of the first surface portion of tissue having a first surface topology, generate a demarcation between the first surface portion and the second surface portion, receive rescan data of an…
VARIOUS STRUCTURED SUPPORTS FOR 3D PRINTED ALIGNERS/MOUTH PIECES
Granted: October 17, 2024
Application Number:
20240341931
A support is coupled to an appliance to decrease warpage. The support may comprise a plurality of extensions coupled to the appliance to decrease warpage. The extensions can be coupled to the appliance at one or more of many locations, such as on an occlusal surface, a wall, an edge or an interior of the appliance. In some embodiments, the extensions are coupled to walls of the appliance such as a buccal wall and a lingual wall, and the extensions can be coupled to the walls of the…
REINFORCED ALIGNER HOOKS
Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240307152
A method of forming a system of aligners may include generating a first digital model of a first mold for a first orthodontic aligner including a first geometry for forming teeth receiving cavities to receive and reposition a first set of teeth, a first digital model of a first witness object for a first integral hook portion of the aligner on at least one of the tooth receiving cavities may be generated. A first mold with the first witness object based on the first digital model of the…
TREATMENT PLAN SPECIFIC BITE ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURES
Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240307154
A series of appliances including a first shell and a second shell can be designed to incrementally implement a treatment plan. The first and second shells can have cavities designed to receive teeth of a jaw. A first number of bite adjustment structures can be formed of a same material as the first shell, extending therefrom and designed to interface with teeth of a second jaw. The first number of bite adjustment structures can have a first shape and location specific to a first stage of…
