Hybrid program
This course comprises 2 days of hands-on in-person training in Brazil and/or a 9-class online program available to attend live or on demand for a practical and theoretical deep dive into smile design.
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Designing Smiles with Christian Coachman
Even with incredible technologies, when it comes to rehabilitating smiles, we still rely immensely on our hand-eye skills. Learn how to translate them into the art of smile design through this course.
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!
Through hands-on in-person training and online learning, this course teaches everything you need to know to design beautiful smiles and deal with compromised cases.
Learn the importance of and gain the necessary skills to technically execute the key smile design steps
Hone your artistic smile design skills and practice hand-eye coordination
How technicians can help their dentists to increase case acceptance and improve patient experience
Learn the fundamentals to create natural-looking smile rehabilitations
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
The new role technicians should play in this environment to differentiate themselves
Master the 5 smile design moments with this course
To become a great modern smile rehabilitator, there are five fundamental moments you need to master in the design smile process.
Beyond just a digital or analog approach, this course teaches you how to master these moments regardless of the tools you use:
Developing the ideal smile (diagnostic and design)
Testing the smile design (patient communication and transferring data)
Adapting the smile design (ideal vs. reality)
Guiding and controlling the clinical execution by design
Dentist-lab synergy when designing and restoring smiles
Propel your success with smile design like so...
Learn
Reserve your seat and join us in-person for a value-packed hands-on two days in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, as well as attend the theoretical 9-class online program.
Implement
Assimilate the wealth of knowledge, resources and hands-on mastery shared by Christian and understand what is necessary to become a great modern smile rehabilitator.
Advance
Enjoy the results of implementing the proven smile design principles, esthetic know-how and hands-on training in your daily clinical practice.
What dentists and technicians say about the course
Not only thorough, but very insightful and practical…
“Christian is an amazing communicator and this course is nothing short of spectacular. It’s a course that is not only thorough, it's also very insightful and practical.”
Dr Ramin TabibNew York, USA
The Designing Smiles course has humbled me!...
“I have been a dental technician for 32 years and my lab has become known for its full mouth reconstruction cases. I honestly thought I understood full mouth reconstruction and implemented the best possible means for reconstructing patients’ smiles.
Christian Coachman’s Designing Smiles course has humbled me! It showed me what I did NOT know.”
Portland, OR
Course director & speaker
DSD Founder, Christian Coachman, is going back to his smile design roots to share with you his 20 years’ experience as a dentist, technician and smile architect.
Before founding Digital Smile Design, Christian traveled the world as a master dental ceramist, working alongside some of the best dentists in the world to design their patients’ smiles.
Through this course, Christian will share everything he has learned over the years as a high-end dental ceramist and digital dental lab owner to help dental professionals improve their smile design skills for better communication between clinician and lab.
Hands on program
By purchasing a ticket to the in-person course in São Paulo, you'll also get access to the livestream program included in the ticket price.
Day 1
Quick view08h30 - 09h30 - Welcome coffee & Registration
09h30 - 12h00 - Session 1 - Livestream content recap
12h00 - 13h00 - Lunch
13h00 - 15h30 - Session 2 - Freehand drawing exercise: Activating your artistic side
15h30 - 16h00 - Coffee Break
16h00 - 18h00 - Session 3 - Model exercise 1: Making teeth look longer/narrower and shorter/wider
18h00 - 20h00 - Brazilian BBQ at the Coachman-Well Clinic
Day 2
Quick view08h30 - 09h30 - Welcome coffee
09h30 - 12h00 - Session 4 - Model exercise 2: From fake/bulky to natural/delicate
12h00 - 13h00 - Lunch
13h00 - 15h30 - Session 5 - Model exercise 3: Fixing axis and interproximal areas
15h30 - 16h00 - Coffee Break
16h00 - 18h00 - Session 6 - Model exercise 4: Creating space for pink and avoiding the “banana look”
Conclusions
How important is smile design
Smile designer know-how and skills
Is smile design under control?
The art of smile design
Orofacial nomenclature
- Dento-gingival
Dento-gingival parameters
The papilla factor & pink esthetics
Occlusion vs. smile design
Intraoral references for smile design
Morphopsychology & smile design
- Dento-facial
Natural head position & facial asymmetries
Denture & orthognathic influence
Facial thirds & profile
The lip factor
Buccal corridor
Facial flow
The smile frame in 10 steps
Facially-driven treatment planning thinking process
The discrepancy report
Smile design & airway
Global diagnosis
Activating your artistic side.
Smile design evolution
Smile design moments & methods
Natural libraries & digital smile donator
Smile test drive analysis & communication
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
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
Restorative planning and the new lab role
DSD Direct
Guided tooth prep
Soft tissue copy-paste concept
Smile simulation using the DSD App
Case Discussion
Upcoming courses
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.”
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 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. Dental Academy USA designates this activity for 15 hours continuing education credit.
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.
Your next steps with the Designing Smiles Course
If you are considering joining the upcoming course, take one of the following steps:
This course takes place in partnership with:
This course is sponsored by:
Continuing Education Credits
Digital Smile Design is proud to offer Continuing Education (CE) Credits for our courses through our collaboration with Dental Academy USA, a PACE Approved organization affiliated with the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) #420360. The AGD represents a prestigious community, dedicated to the support and advancement of general dentists, by providing valuable resources aimed at enhancing their practices and the quality of patient care.