When our teenage train tracks no longer cut it, we turned to veneers—thin custom-made porcelain shells bonded to the teeth—to ...

*The timing for attachments and disking varies by clinic. ・Which teeth to perform disking (IPR) on. *What is disking (IPR)? A procedure to create space by shaving just a tiny bit (about 0.2 to 0.5 mm ...

The European Union antitrust body said it opened an investigation into U.S. medical-device maker Align Technology to assess whether the company’s sales strategy for teeth aligner Invisalign and dental ...

The European Commission has decided to look closely at how you straighten teeth, or more precisely, at the machine a dentist uses to scan them. Brussels has opened a formal antitrust investigation ...

The other day, I wrote a note about starting clear aligner therapy. If you are considering clear aligner therapy and haven't read it yet, please check it out below. On the morning of the day I was ...

Elliott Investment Management has built a significant stake in Align Technology Inc., the maker of Invisalign teeth-straightening products, according to people familiar with the matter. The activist ...

Joe Hogan sees a lot of smiles. When people ask him where he works, he responds with “Align Technology,” which inevitably prompts the follow up: “What’s that?” It’s the $12 billion company behind ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we discuss whether patent owners are better off facing post-grant challenges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) at ...

I've always coveted a perfect smile. So getting Invisalign, the popular orthodontic treatment used to gradually straighten teeth, was something I considered for over a decade. But it wasn't until the ...