DSD Smile Design App Certification
Learn how to communicate efficiently and confidently with your patients, team and lab for consistent and realistic clinical outcomes with step-by-step training on the DSD App.
Learn how to communicate efficiently and confidently with your patients, team and lab for consistent and realistic clinical outcomes with step-by-step training on the DSD App.
If you think simulating smiles is complex and laborious, think again…
Through the DSD App Certification, you’ll discover exactly why DSD's smile design app is the ideal starting point for your smile transformations and how to utilize this high-impact digital tool in the design process to deliver smiles that you and your patients are proud of.
Following strict facially-driven parameters, you’ll learn for yourself why the DSD App is definitely not a social media gimmick…
✓ How to achieve realistic outcomes with this high-impact tool with step-by-step tutorials
✓ Simplify decision-making in the smile design process and reduce stress when inside the mouth
✓ How to build trust with patients and gain confidence in your treatment plans
✓ Increase efficiency by reducing the back and forth between your team and lab
✓ How to take advantage of the DSD App as a practical, visual tool for case planning and record-keeping
✓ How to reduce costly repetitions by introducing the DSD App into your workflows
And much more!
Learn the how to incorporate the DSD App into your daily workflows to take full advantage of its features and create clinically realistic blueprints for your smile transformations.
Lesson 1: Starting from the face
Understand why starting with facially-driven smile design is non negotiable.
Lesson 2: Our challenge - creating a beautiful design
Why the DSD App was created and what challenges it solves.
Lesson 3: How does the 2D-3D connection empower your smile design?
Learn the power of the 2D-3D connection and how you can take full advantage of it.
Lesson 4: Useful DSD App workflows to master
Discover how the DSD App can become part of the daily routine in a restorative dental office.
Lesson 5: Why & when we can make better use of smile simulations
Explore situations in which dentists could make better use of smile simulations to drastically improve patient experience.
Lesson 6: Esthetics is not our priority
Discover why esthetics is the starting point for us to unite function, biology, structure and the most beautiful smile possible.
Lesson 7: Why DSD is so much more than the app
Learn why the DSD App is just a small part of DSD as a whole.
Delve into how to customize each DSD App smile simulation: from tooth shape to color, lip outline to gums. Plus, how to inspire your patients and communicate effectively with your team and dental lab using the app.
Quick viewLesson 1: How to start your smile design
Explore the first steps to start a new smile simulation using the DSD App.
Lesson 2: How to update and calibrate your case
Learn which files you can add to your case to improve the quality of the smile simulation and how to calibrate the photo.
Lesson 3: How to define the midline and the smile curve
Discover how to set the dental midline, adjust central incisor length and refine the smile curve - as well as why video analysis is so vital.
Lesson 4: How to adjust the central incisors and gingival curve
Christian Coachman demonstrates how to change the proportion of the centrals and adjust the gingival curve.
Lesson 5: How to select tooth shape
Learn how to open the Smile Donator library on the app and select the tooth shapes that will suit your patient's face.
Lesson 6: How to customize your design
Explore the nuances of tailoring your patient's smile simulation on the app, focusing on individual tooth adjustments and color visualization.
Lesson 7: How to adjust the lip and tooth color
Discover how to accurately outline the lip and ensure the teeth look natural by matching color with facial hues and applying blur to integrate them with facial resolution.
Lesson 8: How to adjust the gum color and use the stamp tool
Christian Coachman demonstrates the gum layer tool and how to use the stamp to hide the patient's existing teeth in the simulation.
Lesson 9: How to finalize and use your smile design
Conclude your smile simulation with engaging visuals for your patient and drawing and note tools for clear lab communication.
DSD Founder & Co-founder of the DSD App
Christian Coachman is a dentist and dental technician, international dental speaker and the developer of well-known concepts such as Digital Smile Design, Pink Hybrid Implant Restoration and Interdisciplinary Treatment Simulation.
DSD Education Strategy Maestro and Expert Presenter
Dr Luken de Arbeloa is a specialist in prosthodontics and esthetic dentistry. He is an international speaker on digital dentistry topics and a specialist in clinical training.
The DSD App by Digital Smile Design is a digital tool for dentists to create esthetic and functional smile designs that enhance patient communication. It facilitates collaboration among dental professionals and integrates with various dental technologies. The DSD App is a 2-dimensional tool for dentists that supports the initial study of a case and allows design modifications to the smile. It is an effective tool for:
- dentists to start analyzing and understanding a patient’s face
- communicating and motivating patients visually
- improving communication between the clinic and dental lab
As it is a 2D visualization tool that can be used for case acceptance, it is not a case planning or design software. It is a simulator that initiates the case study.
With the DSD App you will be able to perform a 2D Digital Smile Design for your patient. The App has 10 libraries of teeth that can be adjusted to the needs of your patient. The App also functions as a great communication tool that you can use with your patient to explain the desired outcome of their treatment.
With the DSD App you can study the face of your patients, observing the initial situation by tracing lines and curves that will help you understand the current condition.
You can also start to analyze the potential ideal case, tracing new lines and curves (also known as the smile frame) that will determine the ideal position, size, shape and proportion of the teeth and perioral areas for that patient.
Once you have drawn the lines and curves (smile frame) you will be able to create a simulation of the teeth to see a before and after.
To study the complete case and to be able to discuss a treatment plan, 3D tools are needed in which more photographs of the patient, video, STL models, radiographs and/or CBCT, digital articulators, etc. are used. To do this, we have the DSD Planning Center service in which all these functions can be developed to plan a case.
To learn how to really take advantage of the DSD App, please check out our DSD App Certification program if you want further on-demand training in how to use the app.
The DSD App is compatible with:
To download the DSD App onto your MacBook, you can do so through the iPadOS App Store page by clicking 'View in Mac App Store'.
The DSD App Certification is hosted in our online e-learning platform, DSD Online.
DSD Online is available through a monthly subscription plan, which costs $35 a month.
Included in your subscription, you get access to the DSD App Certification, which is just one of DSD’s guided learning programs. Start with the DSD App Certification today and access the full e-learning catalog as you progress.
The DSD App Certification is hosted in our online e-learning platform, DSD Online.
DSD Online's monthly subscription plan costs $35 a month.