Patent ID: 11957532
Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of generating a digital dental model of a patient's teeth, the method comprising:
receiving, by a digital-teeth-model-receiving-component, a first digital scan of the patient's teeth, wherein the first digital scan comprises a first three-dimensional digital teeth model;
receiving, by the digital-teeth-model-receiving-component, a second digital scan of the patient's teeth, wherein the second digital scan comprises a scannable object inserted in an interproximal space between a first tooth and a second tooth of the patient's teeth;
determining, by an interproximal-information-obtaining-component, interproximal information of the patient's teeth, wherein the interproximal information is based at least in part on the second digital scan; and
generating, by a digital-teeth-model-creation-component, a modified three-dimensional digital teeth model based at least in part on the interproximal information, thereby providing a depiction of the interproximal space between the first tooth and the second tooth of the patient's teeth;
wherein the modified three-dimensional digital teeth model is generated by digitally removing, from the first three-dimensional digital teeth model, three-dimensional model portions corresponding to the interproximal space between the first tooth and the second tooth of the patient.