This application is related to commonly-owned U.S. application Ser. No. 10/718,779 filed Nov. 20, 2003, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/686,190 filed Oct. 10, 2000 (now abandoned), which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/169,276 filed on Oct. 8, 1998, and to U.S. application Ser. No. 09/169,036 filed Oct. 8, 1998 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,450,807), the full disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates generally to dental treatment. In some types of dental treatment, a patient's teeth can be moved from an initial to a final position using any of a variety of appliances. An appliance can be used to exert force on the teeth by which one or more of them are moved or held in place, as appropriate to the stage of treatment. In some instances, the appliance may lose some of its ability to impart force due to a relaxation of the materials used to form the appliance. Such relaxation may be due to the application of force over time, may be due to inherent properties in the material, and/or by materials provided in conjunction with or used in parallel with an appliance, among other causes. This relaxation may reduce the effectiveness of the appliance, in some instances.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, appliances, systems, and methods are provided for defining appliance configurations or changes to appliance configurations for incrementally moving teeth. For example, in some embodiments, the appliance can include one or more ribs that can be provided, for example, to reinforce the structure of at least a portion of the appliance with respect to various forces that may be applied thereto. In some embodiments, the tooth movements can be those normally associated with orthodontic treatment, including translation in three orthogonal directions relative to a vertical centerline, rotation of the tooth centerline in the two orthodontic directions (“root angulation” and “torque”), as well as rotation about the centerline.
As an initial step, in some embodiments, a mold or a scan of patient's teeth or mouth tissue can be acquired (110). This step can, for example, involve taking one or more casts of one or more of the patient's teeth and/or gums, and may also involve taking wax bites, direct contact scanning, x-ray imaging, tomographic imaging, sonographic imaging, and/or other techniques for obtaining information about the position and structure of the teeth, jaws, gums and/or other orthodontically relevant tissue. From the data so obtained, a digital data set can be derived that represents the initial (e.g., pretreatment) arrangement of the patient's teeth and/or other tissues.
The initial digital data set, which may include both raw data from scanning operations and/or data representing surface models derived from the raw data, can be processed to segment the tissue constituents from each other (step 120). In particular, for example, in this step, data structures that digitally represent individual tooth crowns can be produced. Advantageously, in some embodiments, digital models of entire teeth can be produced, including measured or extrapolated hidden surfaces and root structures.
The desired final position of the teeth, that is, the desired and/or intended end result of orthodontic treatment, can be received from a clinician in the form of a prescription, can be calculated from basic orthodontic principles, and/or can be extrapolated computationally from a clinical prescription (step 130), among other sources of the final position. With a specification of the desired final positions of the teeth and a digital representation of the teeth themselves, the final position and/or surface geometry of each tooth can be specified (step 140) to form a complete model of the teeth at the desired end of treatment. Generally, in this step, the position of every tooth can be specified, in such embodiments. The result of this step is a set of digital data structures that represents an orthodontically correct repositioning of the modeled teeth relative to presumed-stable tissue. In some embodiments, the teeth and tissue are both represented as digital data.
Having both a beginning position and a final position for a tooth, the process next defines a tooth path for the motion of the teeth. The tooth paths can be optimized in the aggregate so that the teeth can be moved in the quickest fashion with the least amount of round-tripping to bring the teeth from their initial positions to their desired final positions. (Round-tripping is any motion of a tooth in any direction other than directly toward the desired final position. Round-tripping is sometimes necessary to allow teeth to move past each other.)
In some processes, the tooth paths are segmented. In such embodiments, the segments are calculated so that each tooth's motion within a segment stays within threshold limits of linear and rotational translation. In this way, the end points of each path segment can constitute a clinically viable repositioning, and the aggregate of segment end points constitute a clinically viable sequence of tooth positions, so that moving from one point to the next in the sequence does not result in a collision of teeth.
In embodiments such as
At various stages of the process, for example, after the segmented paths have been defined, the process can interact with a clinician responsible for the treatment of the patient (step 160). Clinician interaction can be implemented using a client process programmed to receive tooth positions and models, as well as path information from a server computer or process in which other steps of process 100 are implemented. The client process can be advantageously programmed to allow the clinician to display an animation of the positions and paths and to allow the clinician to reset the final positions of one or more of the teeth and to specify constraints to be applied to the segmented paths. If the clinician makes any such changes, the subprocess of defining segmented paths (step 150) can, in some embodiments, be performed again.
The segmented tooth paths and associated tooth position data can be used to calculate clinically acceptable appliance configurations (or successive changes in appliance configuration) that can move the teeth on the defined treatment path in the steps specified by the path segments (step 170). Each appliance configuration represents a step along the treatment path for the patient. The steps can be defined and calculated so that each discrete position can follow by straight-line tooth movement or simple rotation from the tooth positions achieved by the preceding discrete step and so that the amount of repositioning required at each step can involve an orthodontically appropriate amount of force on the patient's dentition. As with the path definition step, this appliance calculation step can include interactions and even iterative interactions with the clinician (step 160). The operation of a process step such as step 200 implementing this calculation step will be described more fully below.
Having calculated appliance definitions, the process 100 can proceed to the manufacturing step (step 180) in which appliances defined by the process are manufactured, or electronic or printed information is produced that can be used by a manual or automated process to define appliance configurations or changes to appliance configurations.
The finite element models can be created using computer program application software available from a variety of vendors. For creating solid geometry models, computer aided engineering (CAE) or computer aided design (CAD) programs can be used, such as the AutoCAD® software products available from Autodesk, Inc., of San Rafael, Calif. or SolidWorks, discussed below. For creating finite element models and analyzing them, program products from a number of vendors can be used, including the PolyFEM product available from CADSI of Coralville, Iowa, the Pro/Mechanica simulation software available from Parametric Technology Corporation of Needham, Mass., the I-DEAS design software products available from Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the MSC/NASTRAN product available from MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation of Los Angeles, Calif. Other programs that can be utilized in various embodiments include SolidWorks® available from SolidWorks Corporation of Concord, Mass. and ProEngineerg available from Parametric Technology Corporation of Needham, Mass., among others.
A finite element model of the initial configuration of the teeth and/or tissue can be created (step 310) and optionally cached for reuse in later iterations of the process (step 320). As was done with the teeth and tissue, a finite element model can be created of the polymeric shell aligner (step 330). The input data for this model can include data specifying the material of which the aligner is made and/or the shape of the aligner (data input 304).
The model aligner can then be computationally manipulated to place it over the modeled teeth in the model jaw to create a composite model of an in-place aligner (step 340). Optionally, the forces required to deform the aligner to fit over the teeth, including any hardware attached to the teeth, can be computed and, for example, used as a figure of merit in measuring the acceptability of the particular aligner configuration. In an alternative, however, the aligner deformation can be modeled by applying enough force to its insides to make it large enough to fit over the teeth, placing the model aligner over the model teeth in the composite model, setting the conditions of the model teeth and tissue to be infinitely rigid, and/or allowing the model aligner to relax into position over the fixed teeth. The surfaces of the aligner and the teeth can be modeled to interact without friction at this stage, so that the aligner model achieves the correct initial configuration over the model teeth before finite element analysis is begun to find a solution to the composite model and/or compute the movement of the teeth under the influence of the distorted aligner.
In various embodiments where a number of ribs are provided, the ribs can be modeled digitally and/or the force calculations can be adjusted or calculated differently to account for the changes in force the ribs may provide. Such changes may allow a tooth to be moved more quickly, a tooth position to be maintained against greater or longer duration force, and/or moved for a longer duration.
If a previously evaluated aligner was found to violate one or more constraints, additional input data 406 can be used by the process 400. This data 406 can include information identifying the constraints violated by, and any identified suboptimal performance of, the previously evaluated aligner.
Having received initial input data (step 420), the process can iterate over the movable teeth in the model. (Some of the teeth may be identified as, and constrained to be, immobile.) If the end position and/or dynamics of motion of the currently selected tooth by the previously selected aligner are acceptable (“yes” branch of decision step 440), the process can continue, for example, by selecting for consideration a next tooth (step 430) until all teeth have been considered (“done” branch from step 430 to step 470). Otherwise (“no” branch from step 440), a change in the aligner can be calculated in the region of the currently selected tooth (step 450). The process then can move back to select the next current tooth (step 430) as has been described.
In some embodiments, when all of the teeth have been considered, the aggregate changes made to the aligner can be evaluated against previously defined constraints (step 470), examples of which have already been mentioned. Constraints can be defined with reference to a variety of further considerations, such as manufacturability. For example, constraints can be defined to set a maximum and/or minimum thickness of the aligner material, and/or to set a maximum and/or minimum coverage of the aligner over the crowns of the teeth. In such embodiments, if the aligner constraints are satisfied, the changes are applied to define a new aligner shape (step 490). In some such embodiments, the changes to the aligner are revised to satisfy the constraints (step 480), and the revised changes are applied to define the new aligner shape (step 490).
Rules 452 have the conventional two-part form: an if-part defining a condition and a then-part defining a conclusion or action that is asserted if the condition is satisfied. Conditions can be simple or they can be complex conjunctions or disjunctions of multiple assertions. An example set of rules, which defines changes to be made to the aligner, can, for example, include the following: if the motion of the tooth is too slow, add driving material to the aligner opposite the desired direction of motion; if the motion of the tooth is too slow, add driving material to overcorrect the position of the tooth; if the tooth is too far short of the desired end position, add material to overcorrect; if the tooth has been moved too far past the desired end position, add material to stiffen the aligner where the tooth moves to meet it; if a maximum amount of driving material has been added, add material to overcorrect the repositioning of the tooth and do not add driving material; and/or if the motion of the tooth is in a direction other than the desired direction, remove and add material so as to redirect the tooth, among other rules.
In another embodiment, illustrated in
A step in process 460, which can also be implemented as a rule 452 (
As shown in
In some embodiments, when an aligner configuration has been found for each step or segment of the treatment path (step 604), the overall process 600 can be used to determine whether one or more of the aligners are acceptable (step 606). In some embodiments, if they are, the process exits and is complete. In some embodiments, the process can undertake a set of steps 610 in an attempt to calculate a set of acceptable aligners. In such embodiments the process can, relax one or more of the constraints on the aligners (step 612). Then, for each path segment with an unacceptable aligner, the process 200 of shaping an aligner can be performed with the new constraints (step 614). If the aligners are now acceptable, the overall process 600 can be exited (step 616).
Aligners may be unacceptable for a variety of reasons, some of which can be handled by the overall process in such embodiments. For example, if any impossible movements were required (decision step 620), that is, if the shape calculation process 200 was required to effect a motion for which no rule or adjustment was available, the process 600 can proceed to execute a module that can calculate the configuration of a hardware attachment to the subject tooth to which forces can be applied to effect such a required motion (step 640). Because adding hardware can have an effect that is more than local, when hardware is added to the model, in such instances, the outer loop of the overall process 600 can be executed again (step 642).
If no impossible movements were required (“no” branch from step 620), the process can transfer control to a path definition process (such as step 150,
As was mentioned above, the overall process 600 can be defined and parameterized by various items of input data (step 602). In one implementation, this initializing and defining data includes the following items: an iteration limit for the outer loop of the overall process; specification of figures of merit that are calculated to determine whether an aligner is good enough (see
In various embodiments, other features can be added to the tooth model data sets to produce desired features in the aligners. For example, it may be desirable to add digital wax patches to define cavities or recesses to maintain a space between the aligner and particular regions of the teeth or jaw. It may also be desirable to add digital wax patches to define corrugated and/or other structural forms to create regions having particular stiffness and/or other structural properties. In manufacturing processes that rely on generation of positive models to produce the repositioning appliance, adding a wax patch to the digital model can be used to generate a positive mold that has the same added wax patch geometry. This can be done globally in defining the base shape of the aligners or in the calculation of particular aligner shapes. One feature that can be added, for example, is a rim around the gumline, which can be produced by adding a digital model wire at the gumline of the digital model teeth from which the aligner is manufactured. When an aligner is manufactured by pressure fitting polymeric material over a positive physical model of the digital teeth, the wire along the gumlines can be used to cause the aligner to have a rim around it providing additional stiffness along the gumline. Such an embodiment is illustrated in
In another optional manufacturing technique, two sheets of material can be pressure fit over the positive tooth model, where one of the sheets is cut along the apex arch of the aligner and the other is overlaid on top. Such an embodiment can provide a double thickness of aligner material along the vertical walls of the teeth, among other benefits.
The changes that can be made to the design of an aligner are, in many instances, constrained by the manufacturing technique that will be used to produce it. For example, if the aligner will be made by pressure fitting a polymeric sheet over a positive model, the thickness of the aligner is often determined by the thickness of the sheet. As a consequence, a system embodiment may generally adjust the performance of the aligner by changing the orientation of the model teeth, the sizes of parts of the model teeth, the position and/or selection of attachments, and/or the addition and/or removal of material (e.g., adding wires or creating dimples) to change the structure of the aligner. In such embodiments, the system can be designed to adjust the aligner by specifying that one or more of the aligners are to be made of a sheet of a thickness other than the standard one, to provide more or less force to the teeth. On the other hand, if the aligner will be made by a rapid prototyping technique (e.g., additive manufacturing process), such as by a stereo lithography process, photo lithography process, fused deposition modeling, selective laser sintering, or other such process, the thickness of the aligner can be varied locally, and structural features such as rims, dimples, and corrugations can be added without modifying the digital model of the teeth. Such methods can be used to form ribs as described in further detail herein, for example.
Such a system can also be designed to be used to model the effects of more traditional appliances such as retainers and braces and therefore be used to generate optimal designs and treatment programs for particular patients.
The data processing aspects of one or more of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, or in computer hardware, firmware, software, or in combinations of them. Data processing apparatus of one or more of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented in a computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device for execution by a programmable processor; and data processing method steps of one or more of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be performed by a programmable processor executing a program of instructions to perform functions of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure by operating on input data and/or generating output. The data processing aspects of one or more of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented advantageously in one or more computer programs that are executable on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor coupled to receive data and/or instructions from and/or to transmit data and/or instructions to a data storage system, at least one input device, and/or at least one output device. Each computer program can be implemented in a high-level procedural and/or object-oriented programming language, and/or in assembly and/or machine language, if desired; and, in any case, the language can be a compiled and/or interpreted language. Suitable processors include, by way of example, general and special purpose microprocessors, among other logic processing structures. Generally, a processor can receive instructions and/or data from a read-only memory and/or a random access memory. Storage devices suitable for tangibly embodying computer program instructions and/or data include all forms of nonvolatile memory, including by way of example semiconductor memory devices, such as EPROM, EEPROM, and flash memory devices; magnetic disks such as internal hard disks and removable disks; magneto-optical disks; and CD-ROM disks, and other such media types.
Any of the foregoing can be supplemented by, or incorporated in, ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits).
To provide for interaction with a user, one or more of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented using a computer system having a display device such as a monitor or LCD (liquid crystal display) screen for displaying information to the user and input devices by which the user can provide input to the computer system such as a keyboard, a two-dimensional pointing device such as a mouse or a trackball, or a three-dimensional pointing device such as a data glove or a gyroscopic mouse. The computer system can be programmed to provide a graphical user interface through which computer programs interact with users. The computer system can be programmed to provide a virtual reality, three-dimensional display interface, for use in some embodiments.
The present disclosure includes a number of appliance and system embodiments that include a number of ribs thereon. For example, embodiments can include a number of ribs for reinforcing the dental appliance regarding one or more forces (e.g., torsional, translational, and other types of force) as are discussed in more detail below.
For example, in various embodiments, the number of ribs can include a number of torsional reinforcing ribs for reinforcing the dental appliance regarding one or more torsional (i.e., twisting or rotational) forces. For instance, in some embodiments, the number of ribs includes a number of torsional reinforcing ribs that each provide reinforcing for the dental appliance regarding one or more torsional forces with respect to a line at the center of one of the number of apertures and elongate in a direction of a center of an adjacent tooth aperture.
As discussed above, embodiments can also be designed with respect to translational forces, such as side to side, front to back, back to front, up and down, and/or down and up with respect to the appliance shape and orientation. For example, in various embodiments, the number of ribs can include a number of perpendicular force reinforcing ribs for reinforcing the dental appliance regarding one or more forces perpendicular to a line at the center of one of the number of apertures and elongate in a direction of a center of an adjacent tooth aperture, among other forces. In some embodiments, the number of ribs includes a number of perpendicular force reinforcing ribs for reinforcing the dental appliance regarding one or more forces substantially perpendicular to a line at the center of one of the number of apertures and elongate in a direction of a center of an adjacent tooth aperture (e.g., the direction of elongation of the appliance).
In various embodiments, the thickness of the ribs can vary from one portion of a rib to the next and/or can vary from one rib to the next. For example, in some embodiments, some ribs can be thicker where more force may be needed and thinner where less force may be needed. Additionally, although shown positioned in a spaced manner all along the length of elongation of the appliance, in some embodiments, the ribs can be positioned in one or more places along the length of the appliance rather than all along the length.
The ribs can have a number of sizes and/or shapes and can be sized and/or shaped differently from one portion of the rib to the next. In some embodiments, one or more of the ribs can be sized to not interfere with an interface surface of a dental appliance that is to abut a portion of the exterior surface of one of the number of tooth apertures.
In the embodiment of
Ribs can also be provided that have the same or smaller thickness than the other portions of the appliance. For example, a material or shape that is stiffer could be used as a rib material, in some embodiments, and may be thinner than the material used for other portions of the appliance.
As illustrated in the embodiment of
In various embodiments, at least a portion of one or more of the ribs can be positioned, across a width of the exterior surface of one or more of the number of tooth apertures (e.g., along the outside surface of the appliance). In some embodiments, a rib can be positioned across the top of the aperture formed to accommodate a tooth (e.g., top portion of the U-shaped rib illustrated in
In some embodiments, at least a portion of one or more of the ribs can be positioned substantially vertically, along the height of the exterior surface of one or more of the number of tooth apertures (e.g., the side portions of the U-shaped rib illustrated in
As illustrated in the embodiment of
Ribs can be provided in various shapes. As illustrated in the embodiment of
The present disclosure also includes a number of method embodiments. For example, in some embodiments a method includes forming a virtual teeth model of one or more of a patient's teeth on a computing device. The method also includes forming a virtual dental appliance based upon information from the virtual teeth model. Method embodiments can also include forming a number of ribs on the virtual dental appliance based upon the shape of the virtual dental appliance.
The number of ribs are formed based upon information about force that the dental appliance may experience in a patient's mouth.
An actual appliance to be positioned within a patient's mouth can be formed based upon the virtual dental appliance forming in the computing device. In some such embodiments, the appliance including the number of ribs can be formed using a rapid prototyping process, such as stereo lithography process, as discussed herein.
In various embodiments, the appliance can be formed using a rapid prototyping process and a number of ribs can be attached to the appliance. Such attachment can be accomplished, for example, by weaving the rib through a number of apertures formed in the appliance, by attaching the rib at two or more points along its length with an adhesive (e.g., a UV curable adhesive), or through a thermoforming process where multiple layers are pressed together with at least a portion of the rib material in between two of the layers, among other mechanisms for attaching the rib to the appliance.
In various embodiments, the one or more ribs can be attached to the mold used to make the appliance and then the rib can be used to provide a shape on the appliance. In such embodiments, the rib on the appliance would be a raised portion that is shaped in the form of the rib that was attached to the mold. This attachment to the mold can be accomplished in any suitable manner including, but not limited to, frictional attachment, physical attachment (e.g., weaving, a locking arrangement of parts, etc.), adhesive attachment, or other attachment mechanisms.
In some embodiments, the number of ribs can all be made from one material. In various embodiments, the ribs and the appliance can be formed from the same material. In some embodiments, the actual appliance and the number of ribs are formed from different materials.
Unless explicitly stated, the method embodiments described herein are not constrained to a particular order or sequence. Additionally, some of the described method embodiments, or elements thereof, can occur or be performed at the same, or at least substantially the same, point in time.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that any arrangement calculated to achieve the same techniques can be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This disclosure is intended to cover any and all adaptations or variations of various embodiments of the disclosure.
It is to be understood that the use of the terms “a”, “an”, “one or more”, “a number of”, or “at least one” are all to be interpreted as meaning one or more of an item is present. Additionally, it is to be understood that the above description has been made in an illustrative fashion, and not a restrictive one. Combination of the above embodiments, and other embodiments not specifically described herein will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description.
The scope of the various embodiments of the disclosure includes any other applications in which the above structures and methods are used. Therefore, the scope of various embodiments of the disclosure should be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
In the foregoing Detailed Description, various features are grouped together in a single embodiment for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the embodiments of the disclosure require more features than are expressly recited in each claim.
Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment.
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