Patent ID: 11872102
Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising:
an intraoral scanner to generate scan data of an actual condition of a patient's dental arch after an orthodontic treatment plan has begun; and
a computing device comprising a memory and a processor, the computing device to:
receive the scan data of the actual condition of the patient's dental arch at a stage of the orthodontic treatment plan;
make a comparison of the actual condition of the patient's dental arch as depicted in the scan data to a planned condition of the patient's dental arch for the stage of the orthodontic treatment plan;
determine an updated orthodontic treatment plan based on one or more differences between the actual condition of the patient's dental arch and the planned condition of the patient's dental arch determined from the comparison; and
generate one or more three-dimensional (3D) models for one or more new orthodontic aligners in accordance with the updated orthodontic treatment plan.