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.
Through on-demand 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
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?
Class 1: The Why?
Class 2: Artistic Principles for Smile Designers
Class 3: Smile design evolution
Class 4: The guidelines I
Class 5: The guidelines II
Dento-gingival
Class 6: The guidelines III
Dento-facial
Class 7: Smile design and treatment planning
Class 8: Digital natural restoration
Class 9: Overcoming compromises with optical illusion
Class 10: Overcoming compromises with optical illusion (cont.)
Class 11: Dentist-lab synergy
DSD Lab Reality series with Christian Coachman
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
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.
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.