US 12,232,929 B2
Methods and devices for jaw repositioning
Ken Wu, San Jose, CA (US); Eric E. Kuo, San Jose, CA (US); Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US); Crystal Tjhia, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Eric Yau, Santa Clara, CA (US); Allen R. Boronkay, San Jose, CA (US); Chunhua Li, Cupertino, CA (US); and Gleb Krivovyaz, Moscow (RU)
Assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/181,439.
Application 18/181,439 is a continuation of application No. 16/745,980, filed on Jan. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,633,261.
Application 16/745,980 is a continuation of application No. 14/491,765, filed on Sep. 19, 2014, granted, now 10,537,406, issued on Jan. 21, 2020.
Application 14/491,765 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/186,856, filed on Feb. 21, 2014, granted, now 9,844,424, issued on Dec. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263599 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61C 7/08 (2006.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/36 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 7/08 (2013.01) [A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 7/36 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computing device readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:
identifying a jaw position of a misaligned jaw of a patient from a virtual image of a patient's jaw;
providing a treatment plan, the treatment plan including tooth repositioning forces to reposition at least one tooth of the patient and to apply jaw repositioning forces to modify the jaw position of the misaligned jaw;
virtually modeling application of the jaw repositioning forces between a first repositioning jaw element and a second repositioning jaw element to obtain a virtual model of the application of the jaw repositioning forces on the virtual model of the patient's jaw;
identifying one or more constraints limiting the application of the jaw repositioning forces to the misaligned jaw, based on the virtual model of the application of the jaw repositioning forces; and
adjusting the first repositioning jaw element and the second repositioning jaw element to accommodate the one or more constraints.