Patent Document ID: 20110123943
Application ID: 13017913
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for tracking teeth movement, the method comprising: receiving a virtual teeth model of physical teeth in an initial tooth arrangement using a computing device; positioning at least one virtual marker on at least one virtual tooth of the virtual teeth model; generating a successive digital tooth arrangement for the virtual teeth model using the computing device; providing information for positioning at least one physical marker at a location on at least one of the physical teeth corresponding to a location of the at least one virtual marker on the at least one virtual tooth; receiving an image of the at least one physical marker after the physical teeth have moved to a successive physical tooth arrangement using the computing device; matching the at least one physical marker at the successive physical tooth arrangement with the at least one virtual marker at the successive digital tooth arrangement using computer-implemented computational geometry calculations to verify that the successive physical tooth arrangement follows the successive digital tooth arrangement using the computing device.