METHODS FOR DIRECTLY FABRICATING ORAL APPLIANCES WITH 4D PRINTING
Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number:
20250143845
A method for fabricating an oral appliance may include forming, using a 3D additive manufacturing process, a polymeric shell having a plurality of teeth engaging structures shaped to engage the teeth of the patient and forming, using the 3D additive manufacturing process, a force generating component coupled to the plurality of teeth engaging structures, the force generating component may be configured to generate a force in response to a stimulus in order to reposition one or more teeth…
ORTHODONTIC ALIGNERS AND METHODS OF DESIGNING AND FABRICATING ORTHODONTIC ALIGNERS BASED ON TOOTH SHAPE
Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number:
20250143842
A series of orthodontic aligners may be produced by a process including receiving a first position of at least one tooth of a patient for a first treatment stage of plurality of orthodontic treatment stages, determining a movement vector magnitude and direction for moving the at least one tooth from the first position towards a second position, analyzing a surface of the at least one tooth of the patient based on the determined movement vector, designing a first orthodontic aligner of…
PATIENT-CUSTOMIZED DENTAL APPLIANCES
Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number:
20250134625
A series of patient-customized orthodontic aligners may be produced by a process including receiving a digital model of a patient's tooth, determining a force system for eliciting a tooth movement, and designing a patient-customized attachment configured to engage at least one of the series of patient-customized orthodontic aligners when worn by a patient and apply a repositioning force to the patient's tooth corresponding to the force system. The process may also include designing the…
CLINICALLY RELEVANT ANONYMIZATION OF PATIENT IMAGES
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250132017
A method of anonymizing clinical data may include receiving a three-dimensional model of representation data corresponding to a body part. The representation data may include a clinically relevant region and an anonymization region. The method may also 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…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOOTH SHADE IMAGING IN DENTAL TREATMENT
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250116554
A system for tooth shade imaging in dental treatment may include one or more processors and memory having instructions that when executed by the one or more processors may cause the system to receive scan data of a patient's dentition, determine that a tooth of interest for shade capture is within a field of view of a shade capture device, capture a first shade of the tooth of interest before tooth preparation, capture a second shade of the tooth of interest after tooth preparation,…
INTRAORAL DEVICES FOR DISPLACING A JAW IN RESPONSE TO SLEEP APNEA STATUS
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250114239
An intraoral device for use in treating a sleep apnea condition may include an intraoral device body, a first advancement structure configured to be coupled to a first jaw of a patient, and an intraoral actuator coupled to the first advancement structure. The intraoral actuator may be configured to displace a lower jaw of the patient from a first position to a second position in order to treat the sleep apnea condition. Displacing the lower jaw of the patient may include advancing the…
NONLINEAR TOOTH MODELING FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250114167
A method may include receiving a digital model of a dental appliance, the digital model may have a plurality of caps. Each cap of the plurality of caps may represent a set of contact points on a tooth. The digital model may have a plurality of links. Each link of the plurality of links may represent a connection between a plurality of caps. The method may include generating a relaxed model of a dental appliance using the digital model of the dental appliance. The method may also include…
ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE RETENTION-ACTIVATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250090283
A system for generating aligner shapes may include one or more processors and memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to carry out a method. The method may include determining a desired force system for moving a tooth, generating a population of sets of degrees of freedom and contact surfaces, determining a force system for each of the sets in the population evaluating a cost function of each of the force systems compared to the…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTACHMENT DESIGN AND PLACEMENT
Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250082441
A method of attachment design may include placing a virtual attachment having a shape at a location on a virtual tooth, generating attachment shape parameters for the virtual attachment, and determining whether the virtual attachment at the location and having the shape generates a solution that results in a desired movement of the virtual tooth for a stage of treatment in a treatment plan. The method may also include modifying, based on the determining, the shape of the virtual…
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…
