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Designing Smiles March 2023
Location: ONLINE
Language: English
Dates: 6 Mar 2023 - 17 Apr 2023
Time: 12:00 CET weekly
*dates may be subject to change
Join Christian Coachman for a brand new technical course that will teach you the fundamentals of smile design.
6 weekly sessions
2.5 hours per class
Purchase Terms and Conditions
❗️The installments are charged monthly to the same card on the same calendar day that the first payment was made.
Why is this course for you?
It will help you develop your artistic skills and master how to create harmony
You will understand how to better connect smile design to comprehensive treatment plans
You will learn smile design fundamentals and how to integrate them with CAD/CAM.
Who should attend?
Those who want to improve their artistic skills and esthetic outcomes of wax-ups, digital designs, direct and indirect restorations.- Smile rehabilitators
- Lab technicians
- Restorative dentists
- Ceramists
- CAD designers
Having the tech and software but not knowing how to fully use it
Needing to master smile design to be able to master digital
Producing artificial-looking smiles with no dentofacial harmony
Lacking artistic skills and failing to leverage optical illusion
Struggling to link smile design and treatment planning
Not knowing how to make a smile design clinically feasible
Needing to know the basics to take advantage of CAD/CAM
Lacking hand-eye coordination
This is your solution
Designing Smiles with Christian Coachman is a brand-new technical course that teaches everything you need to know to design beautiful smiles and deal with realistic compromised cases.
We go from the face to the final restorations powered by digital, so you can:
Hone your hand-eye coordination and smile design skills
Integrate smile design better with treatment planning
Create more natural smile rehabilitations
Master the fundamentals of orofacial esthetics
Improve communication with your technician or lab
Meet your speaker
DSD Founder, Christian Coachman, is going back to his roots to share with you his 20 years of experience as a dentist, technician and smile architect.
Before founding Digital Smile Design, Christian traveled the world as a master ceramist, working alongside some of the best dentists in the world to design their patients’ smiles.
Course goals:
Develop your artistic skills & master harmony
Learn smile design principles to improve handmade or digital procedures, wax-ups, direct and indirect restorations
Learn modern orofacial and smile design principles
Understand morphology, real shapes and perceived shapes
Design smiles in ideal and compromised situations
Learn functional design and restorative design
Achieve esthetics with 3D technology
Understand the most common restorative and smile design limitations in real cases and how to use artistic principles and optical illusion to overcome them
Deal with space distribution limitations, gingival level limitations, gummy smile, ridge deficiencies, tooth position, shape and size limitations.
Overcome diastema or black triangle
Overcome functional limitations
Create efficient dentist-lab communication protocols
Understand the complete CAD/CAM workflow
Course program
Intro - My Smile Design Journey (on demand online)
Introduction, the journey and life of a smile designer
Lessons I learned
The evolution of smile design
Q&A
Class 1 - The Principles of Facially Driven Smile Design
The importance of smile design as the starting point of comprehensive treatment planning
Dento-facial analysis and esthetic parameters
Class 2 - The Facially Driven Smile Frame in 10 steps
Connecting the face to the smile step by step
The starting point of the 3D smile design
Class 3 - The Art of Smile Design. Controlling optical illusion
Relevant artistic principles
Creating harmony in compromised situations
Applications in clinical situations. From theory to reality
2D optical illusion workshop
3D compromised design
Class 4 - Smile Design Workshop
Activating the artistic side of your brain
Freehand drawing exercise
Class 5 - 3D Smile Design Software
Smile design and functional design communication with CAD software
Class 6 - Case study discussion
DSD cases
Cases by participants
What should you expect from a livestream course?
With years of practice delivering livestream courses to audiences worldwide, we have perfected our world-class online format.
Learn online over 6 weeks
NO need to travel
Attend weekly classes (2.5 hours per class)
Study the concepts between sessions
Rewatch classes after they’re over
Connect with participants and the DSD team on our networking platform, BeDSD
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