Patent ID: 7904307

Claim:
A virtual health-care electronic commerce community, comprising: a server that transmits via a network information relating to an orthodontic treatment of a patient, the network coupled to one or more treating professional computers, the server comprising storage media having one or more instructions that if executed cause the server to: access a database comprising a treatment plan for providing orthodontic treatment to the patient, the treatment plan comprising a plurality of digital models of the patient's teeth corresponding to successive tooth arrangements for moving teeth from a first arrangement toward a desired final arrangement; transmit a manipulable 3-D model, selected from the database, to a treating professional computer for generating one or more modifications to the manipulable 3-D model; receive data from the treating professional computer, the data comprising one or more modifications to the 3-D model; and transmit visualization data in response to a request from the treating professional, the visualization data comprising information for visually displaying an aspect of the patient's treatment according to the treatment plan.