How to become a DSD Master

WHAT IS THE DSD MASTERSHIP?

The DSD Mastership is a personalized, 12-month mentorship in facially driven and guided digital workflows, Emotional Dentistry and quality control.

Over the next 12 months, we will teach you everything you need to know about how to implement DSD in your daily practice.

With the DSD Mastership you will learn the DSD clinical, technical and emotional dentistry workflow by using the DSD Planning Center® and DSD Lab®; achieving clinical excellence by performing interdisciplinary, facially- driven, guided, digital dentistry.

You can put into practice all you learned at the DSD Residency course with our supervision.

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Your MASTERSHIP Plan

Follow these 3 steps to become a DSD Master

Become a DSD Member

Attend a DSD Residency 1 or X course: in person or online (R1 & RX Livestream)

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Join the Mastership Program

Sign up to the Mastership program and gain access to our customized on-demand guided learning experience and extra content.

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Get certified with the DSD Mastership

Present your cases and pass the test. When they are approved, you get your DSD Mastership certification!

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MASTERSHIP BENEFITSWHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING A DSD MASTER?

12 months access to the Mastership BeDSD platform. Here you will find all the content you need to do your Mastership: documentation, online training, links to live sessions, class recordings, templates to use, forums and much more!

Access to online training with DSD experts (CoGrows) and Q&A sessions.

12 months access to the DSD Planning Center and DSD Lab

Personal WhatsApp group during those 12 months with the DSD Mastership team.

12 months direct support from our Mastership Mentors (Clinical Consultants and Mastership Coordinators) inside the group.

Keynote/PowerPoint pre-formatted template to present the clinical case for the Mastership (drag and drop). + Training

Keynote/PowerPoint pre-formatted Emotional Presentation template to present the mock up and treatment plan to your patients in the second appointment (drag and drop). + Training

Invitation to attend the DSD Masters Meeting when approved (exclusive meeting by invitation only)

Eligible to apply for DSD Clinic® certification

Diploma delivery and personal Pin ceremony at the DSD Masters Meeting by Christian Coachman

WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR CASE?

One case presentation should be submitted in Keynote or PowerPoint format using the preformatted DSD template.
The case submitted must be 100% digitally planned and executed, from start to finish.
The case can be in any specialty in dentistry (single specialty or interdisciplinary, depending on the comprehensive treatment plan).
The case must have a comprehensive treatment plan. It must include everything that the patient needs in order to restore health and esthetics. The case should be complete in terms of function, biology and esthetics.
Everything should be planned and designed with the DSD Planning Center. If you are doing restorations (veneers, crowns, onlays, table tops, implant rehabilitations), they need to be digitally planned by DSD and milled/printed/pressed following the same file (copy-paste dentistry).
Implant surgeries, crown lengthening, ortho and other treatments should also be digitally planned and guided by the DSD Planning Center services (stents, guides, analysis, etc)
We want you to understand our manufacturing workflow to be able to work with your own lab, while maintaining the DSD protocols. And for that reason, you must manufacture the case you present with our DSD Lab for this certification, including DSD Natural Restorations. For printing products you can use your own printer with our files or your Lab’s printer.
What we want to achieve is to keep the position, size, shape and texture of the initial DSD design to maintain the original plan. At DSD, we use natural digital libraries from real people, so modifying the texture would mean that the natural appearance is lost. If you need to do any modifications, please ask the DSD Planning Center designers to do these before.
Documentation is very important. Please follow the photo/video document carefully to make sure you have included all the necessary files and slides. Make sure you have facial and intraoral pictures/images from every treatment step. You should also include the Emotional Presentation with the before/after mock-up videos and photos.
Once you start the DSD Mastership process, you will have access to an exclusive concierge service, which you should use to solve any doubts and as a pre-evaluation channel. You will be able to send photos and documents to discuss them with our Mastership Mentors Team of doctors. You can also schedule one-to-one calls to go over your cases and get answers to any questions you may have.
Cases will be reviewed by the DSD Faculty and feedback will be given if any requirements are not met.
You have 12 months from subscription to present the 1 case presentation for approval, and during those 12 months, you will get full support from our Mastership Mentors (Clinical Consultants and Mastership Coordinators).
If you think that 12 months will not be enough time to complete your case, you can contact the Mastership Coordinators inside the WhatsApp group to discuss the options available.
After the 12 months of access, there is the possibility to continue using the Planning Center according to TIER consumption rules. Please contact us for more information.

The case must have:

Good-quality photos and video documentation
Good-quality documentation of the mock-up. Facial integration. Facial portraits.
Good-quality Emotional/Motivational images and video with mock-up for the patient slide presentation
Comprehensive treatment plan: a summary of the treatment plan and options should be written on the slides
Good-quality clinical step documentation of the case, using DSD services available for each especially. (i.e. tooth prep, impression, provisional, perio surgery, implant placement, cementation, ortho, occlusal adjustment). Facial and intraoral documentation
Final outcome documentation. Facial and intraoral documentation
Clinical and technical quality control and copy-paste dentistry protocol
The treatment plan, the clinical quality, the decision making, the procedures and the final outcome will be evaluated.
The quality of the content, documentation and presentation layout will also be evaluated.

How should your presentation be structured?

PATIENT INTRO: Relevant information about the case incl. chief complaint
PHOTO AND VIDEO: DSD protocol
CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION: X-rays, CBCT images, perio chart, STL model images, etc.
2D DESIGN: Frontal smiling picture: Frame and simulation
DSD FRAME SEQUENCE FROM DSD PLANNING CENTER: Midline, incisal curve, gingival curve, proportion...
3D DESIGN IMAGES FROM THE DSD PLANNING CENTER PRESENTATION: Ideal pre, Ideal post, etc
MOCK-UP IMAGES: Digital design vs printed model/Shell
EMOTIONAL PRESENTATION: Images and videos (before/after mock-up)
TREATMENT PLAN OPTIONS: Explanations
CLINICAL PROCEDURE MAIN STEPS DOCUMENTATION: Ortho, surgeries, preps, temps, bonding, etc. Intra and extra oral documentation
FINAL OUTCOME PICTURE AND VIDEOS: Intra and extra oral

* If we believe that any of the 3 cases need corrections or feedback, you will be required to send us an amended presentation.

The DSD Faculty reserves the right to suspend this certification if at any point any of the above mentioned conditions are not met, or for any other reason not listed in here.

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The DSD Mastership is a personalized, on-demand 12-month mentorship in facially driven and guided digital workflows, Emotional Dentistry and quality control.

Sign up to the DSD Mastership program here to learn the DSD clinical, technical and Emotional Dentistry workflows by using the DSD Planning Center® and DSD Lab®; and achieve clinical excellence by performing interdisciplinary, facially driven, guided, digital dentistry.

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