Dental appliance with cavity for an unerupted or erupting tooth
First Claim
1. A method for defining an unerupted or erupting tooth during a proposed orthodontic treatment, comprising:
- identifying, via a computing device, whether a patient'"'"'s arch contains an unerupted or erupting tooth;
obtaining dimensional tooth data for at least one dimension of at least one tooth based on one or more tooth eruption prediction factors;
determining a first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth based on the dimensional tooth data;
determining a scaling factor for the first projected dimension of a cavity of a dental appliance positioned to accommodate the unrequited or erupting tooth as the tooth erupts; and
creating the dental appliance having multiple cavities formed therein, wherein each cavity is used to receive one or more teeth of the patient therein, the dental appliance including the cavity sized according to the determined scaled first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth.
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Abstract
A method includes to receive, via a computing device, data representing a plurality of teeth, identify data indicating which of the plurality of teeth are unerupted or erupting, predict at least one characteristic of a tooth of the unerupted or erupting teeth after they have fully erupted using one or more tooth eruption prediction factors, generate new data representing the unerupted or erupting teeth in multiple states of eruption based upon the predicted at least one characteristic of the fully erupted teeth, and generate a series of incremental tooth arrangements with the new data to define a proposed orthodontic treatment based on the new data representing the unerupted or erupting teeth in multiple states of eruption.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for defining an unerupted or erupting tooth during a proposed orthodontic treatment, comprising:
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identifying, via a computing device, whether a patient'"'"'s arch contains an unerupted or erupting tooth; obtaining dimensional tooth data for at least one dimension of at least one tooth based on one or more tooth eruption prediction factors; determining a first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth based on the dimensional tooth data; determining a scaling factor for the first projected dimension of a cavity of a dental appliance positioned to accommodate the unrequited or erupting tooth as the tooth erupts; and creating the dental appliance having multiple cavities formed therein, wherein each cavity is used to receive one or more teeth of the patient therein, the dental appliance including the cavity sized according to the determined scaled first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for accommodating an unerupted or erupting tooth during at least a portion of a treatment plan, comprising:
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predicting at least one of a size, shape, location, and orientation of an unerupted or erupting tooth; determining a scaling factor for a first projected dimension of a cavity for accommodating the unerupted or erupting tooth as the tooth erupts; and creating a vitual shell on a computing device having a plurality of cavities to receive teeth of a jaw, wherein at least one of the plurality of cavities created is the cavity for accommodating the unerupted or erupting tooth. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A non-transitory computing device readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to cause a computing device to:
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identify, via a computing device, whether a patient'"'"'s arch contains an unerupted or erupting tooth; obtain dimensional tooth data for at least on dimension of at least one tooth based on one or more tooth eruption prediction factors; determine a first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth based on the dimensional tooth data; determine a scaling factor for the first projected dimension of a cavity of a dental appliance positioned to accommodate the unerupted or erupting tooth as the tooth erupts; and create the dental appliance configured to reposition at least one tooth of the patient based on the one or more tooth eruption prediction factors and the dimensional tooth data, wherein the dental appliance includes the cavity sized according to the determined scaled first projected dimension for the unerupted or erupting tooth. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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