Treatment progress tracking and recalibration
The present invention relates to systems and methods of developing and tracking delivery and patient progression through an orthodontic treatment plan. One method includes identifying deviations from an orthodontic treatment plan, including receiving a digital representation of an actual arrangement of a patient's teeth after an orthodontic treatment plan has begun for the patient and prior to completion of the orthodontic treatment plan. The method further includes comparing the actual arrangement to a pre-determined planned arrangement to determine if the actual arrangement substantially deviates from the planned arrangement, the comparing comprising matching teeth from a previously segmented model to a surface of an unsegmented representation of the actual arrangement; and calculating one or more positional differences between the actual and planned arrangements of at least some of the corresponding teeth.
1. A system for identifying and correcting deviations of a patient's teeth from an orthodontic treatment plan, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory, including instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the system to at least:
receive an unsegmented three-dimensional digital model of a current tooth arrangement of the patient,
digitally compare a segmented three-dimensional digital model of a planned intermediate tooth arrangement of the orthodontic treatment plan to the unsegmented three-dimensional digital model of the current tooth arrangement of the patient,
identify a discrepancy between the current tooth arrangement and the planned intermediate tooth arrangement based on the comparing, and
generate a modified orthodontic treatment plan in response to the identified discrepancy.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along a revised treatment path from the current tooth arrangement directly towards the subsequent tooth arrangement.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth from the current tooth arrangement towards a tooth arrangement specified by the initial treatment path.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a first subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along a revised treatment path from the current tooth arrangement towards a second subsequent arrangement different from the first subsequent tooth arrangement.
5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a user interface configured to receive user input indicating locations of at least one landmark on each tooth of the unsegmented three-dimensional digital model.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one landmark comprises a facial axis of a clinical crown identifier.
7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the compare step comprises matching the at least one landmark on each tooth of the unsegmented three-dimensional digital model to at least one corresponding landmark on each tooth of the segmented three-dimensional digital model.
8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a user interface configured to display a visualization of the discrepancy between the current tooth arrangement and the planned intermediate tooth arrangement to a user.
9. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computer system for identifying and correcting deviations of a patient's teeth from an orthodontic treatment plan, cause the computer system to at least:
generate an unsegmented three-dimensional digital model of a current tooth arrangement of the patient,
digitally compare a segmented three-dimensional digital model of a planned intermediate tooth arrangement of the orthodontic treatment plan to the unsegmented three-dimensional digital model of the current tooth arrangement of the patient,
identify a discrepancy between the current tooth arrangement and the planned intermediate tooth arrangement based on the comparing, and
generate a modified orthodontic treatment plan in response to the identified discrepancy.
10. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along a revised treatment path from the current tooth arrangement directly towards the subsequent tooth arrangement.
11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth from the current tooth arrangement towards a tooth arrangement specified by the initial treatment path.
12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , wherein the orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along an initial treatment path from an initial tooth arrangement towards a first subsequent tooth arrangement, and the modified orthodontic treatment plan comprises moving the patient's teeth along a revised treatment path from the current tooth arrangement towards a second subsequent arrangement different from the first subsequent tooth arrangement.