18935286. DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH (ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.)
DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Crystal Tjhia of Sunnyvale CA US
Zahra Fahim Nia of San Jose CA US
Jivtesh Khurana of San Francisco CA US
Sudharshan Anandan of Sunnyvale CA US
Jessica H. Schiltz of San Jose CA US
Viswanath Meenakshisundaram of Santa Clara CA US
Laura Natania Nicole Marina Lee of Knightdale NC US
Dmitry B. Sirotkin of Moscow RU
Christopher Carner of Apex NC US
Bastien Pesenti of San Jose CA US
Joel Anderson of Raleigh NC US
Stuart Macrae Montgomery of San Jose CA US
DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18935286 titled 'DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH
Original Abstract Submitted
Devices, methods, and systems for placing dental auxiliaries on teeth are provided. In some embodiments, for example, a dental auxiliary positioner for placing a dental auxiliary on a tooth includes: a registration element configured to receive a patient's tooth; and an auxiliary support coupled to the registration element and further coupled to an auxiliary, where the auxiliary support is configured to position the auxiliary against a surface of the tooth, and where the auxiliary support includes a frame extending at least partially around the auxiliary, one or more struts coupling the auxiliary to the frame, and a flexible bridge coupling the frame to the registration element, where the flexible bridge is configured to bend in one or more directions relative to the tooth to adjust the position of the auxiliary on the surface of the tooth.
- ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Crystal Tjhia of Sunnyvale CA US
- Zahra Fahim Nia of San Jose CA US
- Jivtesh Khurana of San Francisco CA US
- Sudharshan Anandan of Sunnyvale CA US
- Jessica H. Schiltz of San Jose CA US
- Viswanath Meenakshisundaram of Santa Clara CA US
- Chang Xu of Milpitas CA US
- Shaoming Wang of Cary NC US
- Simone Rossi of Durham NC US
- Laura Natania Nicole Marina Lee of Knightdale NC US
- Fred Ting of San Jose CA US
- Dmitry B. Sirotkin of Moscow RU
- Christopher Carner of Apex NC US
- Lana Tran of San Jose CA US
- Kangning Su of Pullman WA US
- Nilesh Joshi of Cary NC US
- Yuxiang Wang of Newark CA US
- Bastien Pesenti of San Jose CA US
- Joel Anderson of Raleigh NC US
- Stuart Macrae Montgomery of San Jose CA US
- A61C7/02
- A61C13/34
- CPC A61C7/02