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Invisalign is manufactured by Align Technology, an American multinational medical-device company. The company's clear align system has been used to treat more than 12.2 million patients. [2] The company was founded in 1997 by Zia Chishti. Chishti conceived of the basic design of InvisAlign while an adult orthodontics patient.
The Invisalign Express 10, which uses 10 aligners, was introduced in 2005. [14] Invisalign 1.5 was released in 2009. It was followed by Invisalign G3 in 2010 and G4 in 2011. Invisalign G3 and G4 were designed for more complex treatments. An Invisalign Express 5 version, which uses 5 aligners, was introduced in 2012. [15]
Orthodontics [a] [b] is a dentistry specialty that addresses the diagnosis, prevention, management, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, as well as misaligned bite patterns. [2]
Entrance to a SmileDirectClub SmileShop. The company initially partnered with Align Technology as an exclusive third-party distributor for its aligners. [12] After a dispute over violation of a non-compete clause claiming Align "misused confidential SmileDirectClub information and violated its fiduciary duties," Align was ordered by an arbitrator to close its retail locations and return its ...
The Food and Drug Administration granted Align Technology approval to sell and market Invisalign in 1998. [5] Chishti secured funding from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and the company had raised around $140 million in venture capital by 2000. Align Technology listed on the NASDAQ in January 2001 with a valuation of $1 billion.
In 1944, Murray L. Ballard was the first to advocate for the stripping of the lower anterior teeth due to crowding in a paper published in The Angle Orthodontist.Other authors also advocated about slenderizing the teeth for next 40 years but it was not until the 1980s when John J. Sheridan's Air Rotor Stripping (ARS) technique for interproximal reduction captured significant interest.
co-production with Left Bank Pictures: One Day at a Time: 2017–2020: Netflix/Pop: co-production with Act III Productions, Snowpants Productions, Big Girl Pants Productions, Glo Nation (seasons 3–4) and Small Fish Studios The Blacklist: Redemption: 2017: NBC: co-production with Davis Entertainment, The Jo(h)ns and Universal Television Spin ...
The facelifted Fiesta, facing competition from the Austin Metro, Fiat Uno, Nissan Micra, Peugeot 205, Toyota Starlet, Vauxhall Nova, and Volkswagen Polo, was one of the UK's top superminis. In its best-ever year, 1987, over 150,000 Fiesta models were sold in the UK, [ 13 ] though it finished second in the sales charts to the Ford Escort.