![]() Clinical orthodontists treat one patient at a time and are not equipped to gather or share large dataset of treatments outcome to draw inferences from multiple and asynchronous clinical observations. Very little analytic randomized data are obtained from which even less is shared among practitioners. Orthodontists usually do not share information among themselves except for the before and after records of patients at conferences with a strong bias toward publishing mainly positive outcomes. Each malocclusion is unique, and it is not possible to totally and predictably correlate the different patterns expressed by the stomatognathic system. Orthodontics is an art and a science based primarily on the experience and bias of the clinician. This process is a unilateral data sharing “association.” All patient data gathered by the orthodontists and dental professionals alike are submitted without any covenant of usage to the align company allowed this company to build an extraordinary and unique dataset of orthodontic treatment outcomes never before gathered by any orthodontic organization. The process was pushed one step further with the submission of sequential records used for “refinement” and final records used for retention. ![]() The public embraced the concept, and soon, most of the orthodontic profession joined the growing number of providers submitting their cases to the company in return for a set of aligners. Align developed a novel concept where the orthodontists submit their patient’s records or dataset in return for a suggested treatment plan and subsequently the production of a set of aligners that move the teeth in predetermined position. ![]() Since Invisalign™ entered the market in 1998 with its cloud based software called Clincheck, the world of orthodontics has evolved dramatically. ![]()
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