The Black Box

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Align Technology, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of Invisalign, a proprietary system for treating malocclusion, or the misalignment of teeth. Invisalign includes ClinCheck, an Internet-based application that allows dental professionals to simulate treatment, in three dimensions, by modeling two-week stages of tooth movement, and Aligners, which are thin, clear plastic, removable dental appliances that are manufactured in a series to correspond to each two-week stage of the ClinCheck simulation. As of December 31, 2002, approximately 80,000 patients worldwide had entered treatment using Invisalign
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so lpdcb, how many people get braces each year? and what is a reasonable expectation for that total to be this product. the mc is 1.3 billion already....