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Designing Smiles On Demand

Sign up for Christian Coachman's on-demand Designing Smiles program and receive 6-months access to the course.

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Course Program

Intro: Is smile design under control?

  • The real challenges of a smile rehabilitator

Class 1: The Why?

  • How important is smile design
  • Smile designer know-how and skilll

Class 2: Artistic Principles for Smile Designers

  • The Role of Artistic Skills in Dentistry
  • From Technician to Smile Design
  • Design Principles Inspired by the Renaissance
  • Practical Techniques: Light, Shade & Visual Comfort

Class 3: Smile design evolution

  • Smile design evolution
  • Smile design moments and methods

Class 4: The guidelines I

  • The art of smile design
  • Orofacial nomenclature
  • Dento-gingival parameters
  • The papilla factor & pink esthetics

Class 5: The guidelines II

Dento-gingival

  • Occlusion vs. smile design
  • Intraoral references for smile design
  • Morphopsychology & smile design

Class 6: The guidelines III

Dento-facial

  • Natural head position & facial asymmetries
  • Denture & orthognathic influence
  • Facial thirds & profile
  • The lip factor
  • Buccal corridor
  • Facial flow

Class 7: Smile design and treatment planning

  • Smile design and airway
  • From design to planning
  • Smile design quality control
  • 10 steps of the smile frame

Class 8: Digital natural restoration

  • Natural libraries & digital smile donator
  • Smile test drive analysis & communication

Class 9: Overcoming compromises with optical illusion

  • Real size and shape vs. perceived size and shape
  • Closing black triangles
  • Improving space distribution and interdental proportions restoratively
  • Managing different gingival levels and zenith
  • Incisal and interproximal embrasures

Class 10: Overcoming compromises with optical illusion (cont.)

  • Managing space distribution by understanding the visible vs. invisible areas
  • Managing space distribution by understanding the light reflection lines (LRL)
  • Visual comfort vs. discomfort
  • Fixing cant/shift
  • Buccal corridor and ridge deficiency

Class 11: Dentist-lab synergy

  • Restorative planning and the new lab role
  • DSD Direct composite veneers system
  • Guided tooth prep
  • Soft tissue copy-paste concept

DSD Lab Reality series with Christian Coachman

  • Planning the white and pink interface on an implant bridge with artificial gingiva
  • Restoration quality control photo protocol
  • Redoing a single restoration of a full arch rehabilitation
  • Tips on how to improve the visual analysis of details on anterior restorations
  • How to evaluate and design an ideal implant
  • Modifying line angles to change width and length perception
  • Modifying the tooth line angles for a more natural shape
  • Discerning asymmetry through image fragmentation
  • Real shape versus perceived shape
  • Fixing the illusion of cant
  • Design tips for a complex full mouth rehabilitation
  • Analyzing the cant, the axis and symmetry of central incisors and how to fix it
  • The archives
  • Improving the perception of tooth proportion
  • Hiding black triangles
  • Gingival outlines and zenith challenges
  • Anterior implant bridge limitations
  • Tooth width perception and rotation
  • Tips on how to improve the harmony of the case - buckle recession
  • Artificial pink design

Tutorial: Using Keynote for smile design and quality control

DSD App smile simulation & case discussion

The 10 steps of the Smile Frame

Smile Design Drawing Exercises