Apparatus for providing diagnosis of orthodontic state and dental appliance to a user and method for providing diagnosis of an orthodontic state of a user

摘要

In the present invention, there is disclosed an apparatus (1) for providing a diagnosis of an orthodontic state of a user and dispensing one of three differently sized dental appliances worn in a mouth of the user, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing device (40) herein the image capturing device obtains an image of a portion of the mouth from a midline of a set of teeth of the user to a back portion of an interior of the mouth of the user and produces a signal indicative of the image; and a central processing unit (10) programmed with data regarding orthodontic conditions of the user wherein the signal of the device (40) is transmitted to the central processing unit (10), which classifies the signal into one of three orthodontic states defined by ranges within an orthodontic condition as children teeth, mixed teeth and permanent teeth wherein one of the three differently sized dental appliances corresponds to each one of the three orthodontic states. There is also disclosed a method for providing a diagnosis of an orthodontic state of a user and dispensing one of three differently sized dental appliances.