Dental appliance wear indication and release agent receptacle

A wear indicator and indicator technology, applied in the field of inventions including methods and systems, can solve problems such as the analysis of the compliance degree of difficult-to-wear indicators, and achieve the effects of increasing understanding and memory, increasing compliance, and reducing anxiety.

Active Publication Date: 2010-03-31
ALIGN TECH
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These factors can make compliance analysis based on wear indicators difficult because different people will have different wear rates

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[0025] figure 1 An exemplary removable instrument 15 adapted to fit onto the teeth of the jaw 16 is shown. The usage indicator 100 can be mounted on a tooth or on the removable instrument 15 to indicate the patient's compliance.

[0026] In one embodiment, the indicator 100 may be a coating on a tooth or a device with a chemical agent. Optionally, the indicator 100 may be an electrical agent, an optical agent, or a mechanical agent that indicates the wear rate of the device. In some embodiments, the indicator is inactive prior to contact with liquid or moisture. Optionally, the release of the indicator can be stimulated by liquid or moisture. Thus, in one case, once the device is put on, the oral fluid activates the indicator, allowing the indicator to leak out and indicating compliance. Optionally, oral fluids such as saliva will penetrate to activate the indicator to indicate compliance.

[0027] In another embodiment, the device releases colorants into the oral environment w...

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The present disclosure includes method, system, apparatus, release agent receptacles, and indicator embodiments.

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[0001] Related application [0002] This application claims the priority of U.S. Patent Application No. 11 / 799,979 filed on May 3, 2007 and U.S. Patent Application No. 12 / 011,942 filed on January 29, 2008, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference . The above two U.S. patent applications are part of continuation applications (CIP) of U.S. Patent Application No. 10 / 949,717 filed on September 24, 2004. Background technique [0003] The present invention relates to a device, system and method for indicating compliance of dental instruments and providing a release agent container. [0004] It is mentioned in the co-owned U.S. Patent No. 6,607,382 entitled "Methods and systems for concurrent toothrcpositioning and substance delivery", [0005] For example, available from the assignee of the present invention, Align Technology, Inc. The system and a series of removable elastic positioning instruments complete the repositioning of teeth. These instruments have a th...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61C7/08A61C19/06A61B5/00G07C3/00A61K6/884
CPCA61C7/00A61C7/08A61C19/04A61C19/063A61C19/066A61K49/00
Inventor 珍妮弗·C·陈C·李安东尼·W·莫尔菲尔德L-H·苏
Owner ALIGN TECH
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