Clinician review of an orthodontic treatment plan and appliance

摘要

A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.

主权项

1. A method for providing three-dimensional models for use in orthodontics, the method comprising:
providing for display on a computer screen data of images of teeth of a patient in suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations that are based on three-dimensional information of the shapes of the teeth of the patient, the suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations being prepared by interaction by an operator and having one or more of the patient's teeth repositioned relative to a first arrangement of the patient's teeth; receiving feedback information on the suggested post-treatment final positions and orientations from a person, other than the operator, who has interactively viewed a display of the provided images, the feedback information including a repositioning of at least one of the patient's teeth in the suggested post-treatment final tooth positions and orientations so as to produce a desired final arrangement of the patient's teeth; and generating a plurality of three-dimensional models representing successive planned intermediate arrangements of the patient's teeth in a planned repositioning of the patient's teeth to the desired final arrangement, wherein at least one of the models is generated based on the feedback information.