Designing Smiles On Demand

Designing Smiles
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What dental professionals say about the course

DESIGNING SMILES WITH CHRISTIAN COACHMAN TESTIMONIAL Dr Ramin Tabib

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 Tabib
New York, USA
DESIGNING SMILES WITH CHRISTIAN COACHMAN TESTIMONIAL Dr Bill Marais

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.”

Bill Marais
Portland, OR

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Are you facing these challenges right now?

This course was designed for dental professionals who want to overcome these common obstacles:

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❌ 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.

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This course is your solution!

Through on-demand learning, this course teaches everything you need to know to design beautiful smiles and deal with compromised cases.

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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

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Meet the course director

Go back to the roots of modern smile design with Christian Coachman, founder of DSD and a pioneer in facially-driven smile design. In this exclusive course, Christian shares insights drawn from over 20 years of hands-on experience as a dentist, master ceramist, and smile architect.

Gain insider knowledge from his journey as a high-end dental technician and digital lab owner, and learn the principles that have shaped the future of esthetic dentistry. This course is designed to help you elevate your smile design skills, enhance clinical-lab communication, and deliver more predictable, beautiful outcomes for your patients.

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

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 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.

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Continuing Education Credits

Digital Smile Design is proud to offer 25 Continuing Education (CE) Credits 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.