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Designing Smiles with Apa & Coachman
Success in restorative dentistry requires mastering the Art of Smile Design and having a high-end esthetic mindset. Let Michael Apa and Christian Coachman guide you…
Are you facing these challenges right now?
This course was designed for dental professionals who want to overcome these common obstacles:
❌ Creating natural results
Producing artificial-looking smiles without dentofacial harmony or leveraging optical illusion in compromised cases.
❌ Smile design fundamentals
Not linking clinically feasible smile design with treatment planning. Artistic skills don’t match clinical skills.
❌ Synergy with lab
Communication between clinic and lab or technician is not efficient, impacting productivity and end results.
This course is your solution
Designing Smiles with Michael Apa & Christian Coachman is a brand-new course that teaches everything you need to know to design beautiful smiles and deal with compromised cases.
Learn the fundamentals to create natural-looking smile rehabilitations
Hone your artistic smile design skills and practice hand-eye coordination
Master effective collaboration tactics between dentists and technicians
Learn how to integrate smile design with treatment planning effectively
Understand norms and identify discrepancies for improved problem solving
This course is designed to propel your success with smile design
Learn
Reserve your seat and join us in-person for a value-packed two days in Miami, USA, to learn from the best in smile design.
Implement
Assimilate the wealth of knowledge, resources and productivity hacks shared by the presenters and notice the difference.
Advance
Enjoy the results of implementing the proven smile design principles and esthetic know-how in your daily clinical practice.
Meet your speakers
Michael Apa
Michael Apa is the founder of the world’s most renowned private dental clinic brand, Apa Aesthetic, with locations in New York, Los Angeles, Dubai and Miami. His hallmark approach, facial aesthetic design, and his inventive techniques to create the most natural smiles possible, has earned him the global reputation as the dentist who elevated dentistry into the luxury market. He is featured regularly in the media and has a significant following on social media, sharing his passion for creating beautiful smiles at every opportunity.
Dedicated fulltime to his clinics and patients, Apa does not often present two-day courses, and has a wealth of knowledge to share with dentists about his consistently successful results.
Christian Coachman
Combining his ceramist and dentist skills, business experience and technology solutions, Christian Coachman pioneered the Digital Smile Design methodology and founded Digital Smile Design company (DSD). Since its inception, thousands of dentists worldwide have attended DSD courses and workshops, such as the renowned DSD Residency program. He is the developer of well-known concepts such as DSD, the Pink Hybrid Implant Restoration, the Digital Planning Center, Emotional Dentistry, Interdisciplinary Treatment Simulation and Digital Smile Donator.
In the Designing Smiles course, Christian is going back to his roots to share his 20 years of experience as a dentist, technician and smile architect.
Who is Christian Coachman? My journey and life as a smile designer
Lessons I learned
The evolution of smile design
Meet Michael Apa
Key aspects of my growth
The evolution of my approach
Dento-Facial Esthetic Principles. C. Coachman
Dento-Facial clinical applications. First appointment goals. Understanding the patient's wishes and dento-facial features. M. Apa
Coffee Break
Connecting the smile to the face, step-by-step. Connecting the face to the smile. C. Coachman
Clinical Case Discussion. M. Apa & C. Coachman
Lunch Break
Creating harmony in compromised cases. Optical illusion principles and its applications in clinical situations. From theory to reality. C. Coachman & M. Apa
Happy hour
Empowering your Dentist-Technician interaction. Communication strategies to improve efficiency and reduce chair side esthetic adjustments. C. Coachman
Coffee Break
Smile Design brainstorm session with real clinical cases. M. Apa
Lunch Break
Workshop: Activating the artistic side of your brain. C. Coachman
Conclusions: M. Apa & C. Coachman
Visit Apa Aesthetic Miami
Cocktail reception
Upcoming courses
Designing Smiles with Apa & Coachman March 2024Miami, FL, USA
Mar 1, 2024
- Mar 2, 2024
From US$4,000.00
The benefits of the course: Dr Apa and Christian Coachman in conversation
Frequently Asked Questions
The professionals who will benefit the most from this course are:
Smile Rehabilitators
Lab Technicians
Restorative Dentists
Ceramists
CAD designers
Christian Coachman says: “I believe we are all beginners when it comes to smile design; there is so much room for improvement.”
No, you do not need to do DSD Residency 1 or any other DSD course before attending Designing Smiles with Apa & Coachman. It is a course designed to help you improve your smile design skills and master the fundamentals of orofacial esthetics.
Christian Coachman believes that mastering ideal smile design and orofacial harmony is the starting point of interdisciplinary treatment planning and is vital to succeed in modern esthetic dentistry. The problem is that designing smiles in harmony with faces is complex and subjective, and requires artistic skills that we usually don't learn in dental school or at dental technician courses. And to make matters more complicated, many of our cases are not ideal. As a result, it’s important to become great at developing the best smile design possible for the reality of each case.
The course outcomes are as follows:
Develop your artistic skills and 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, and shape and size limitations.
Overcome diastema or black triangle
Overcome functional limitations
Create efficient dentist-lab communication protocols
No, these topics will not be covered. This course is focused on dento-facial esthetics and the artistic skills to create harmony.
Yes. Big Sky Seminars is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between Big Sky Seminars and Digital Smile Design. Big Sky Seminars designates this activity for 15 hours continuing education credit.
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Drawing the smile curve
Part of the smile design process, Christian Coachman explains how to draw the smile curve.
Course handbook
Get the official handbook for an overview of the Designing Smiles with Apa & Coachman course.
Your next steps with Designing Smiles with Apa & Coachman
If you are considering joining the upcoming course, you can take one of the following steps.
Continuing Education
Big Sky Seminars is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between Big Sky Seminars and Digital Smile Design.
Big Sky Seminars designates this activity for 15 hours continuing education credit.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
