Patent ID: 7074039

Claim:
A virtual orthodontic treatment method, comprising: (a) providing a virtual diagnostic setup model of teeth of at least one jaw of an individual, associating each teeth in said model with its corresponding virtual orthodontic appliance to obtain a first composite model and repositioning teeth into an initial treatment state according to pre-defined appliances-dependent rules; (b) associating a grade with said initial treatment state according to one or more systems for grading an orthodontic model; (c) in said initial treatment state, selecting one or more teeth and reassociating teeth with their corresponding virtual orthodontic appliances by changing the position of the appliance corresponding to the selected tooth thereby causing repositioning of the teeth according to the appliance-dependence rules to obtain an altered treatment state, (d) associating another grade with said altered treatment state according to said one or more systems for grading an orthodontic model.