Designing Smiles with Christian Coachman

1. How important is smile design

2. Smile designer know-how and skills

3. Is smile design under control?

1. Smile design evolution
2. Smile design moments and methods

1. The art of smile design
2. Orofacial nomenclature
3. Dento-gingival
   1. Dento-gingival parameters
   2. The papilla factor & pink esthetics

1. Dento-gingival
   1. Occlusion vs. smile design
   2. Intraoral references for smile design
   3. Morphopsychology & smile design

1. Dento-facial
   1. Natural head position & facial asymmetries
   2. Denture & orthognathic influence
   3. Facial thirds & profile
   4. The lip factor
   5. Buccal corridor
   6. Facial flow

1. Smile design and airway
2. From design to planning
3. Smile design quality control
4. Ten steps of the smile frame

1. Natural libraries & digital smile donator
2. Smile test drive analysis & communication

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

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

1. Restorative planning and the new lab role
2. DSD Direct
3. Guided tooth prep
4. Soft tissue copy-paste concept

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

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.”

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. Dental Academy USA designates this activity for 32 hours continuing education credit. Dental Academy USA 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 Dental Academy USA and Digital Smile Design.

The Designing Smiles course is for all decision makers in the smile rehabilitation process.

If you’re a doctor, you’ll learn how to improve your smile design skills to communicate better with your lab, how to adjust things in the mouth, reshape mock ups and provisionals, make important modifications in final restorations, how to express your analysis of lab work and ask for modifications.

Even if you outsource your smile designs to the DSD Planning Center, it’s important to understand that DSD facilitates decision making – we don’t take the decisions for you.

So this course will help you to improve your smile design skills to communicate better with your lab.