Digital Smile Design (DSD) with Christian Coachman: Hands-On with the Developer of the Concept

Join Christian Coachman, pioneer of the Digital Smile Design (DSD) methodology, to elevate your smile design skills and confidently handle even the most challenging cases.

This course is for decision makers in dentistry, focusing on refining smile design, enhancing communication with labs, making clinical adjustments, and using optical illusions to achieve optimal esthetic outcomes and predictable final restorations.

To become a modern smile rehabilitator, you need to master five fundamental principles in the smile design process, which you’ll explore in depth in the Designing Smiles course:

– Developing the ideal smile (diagnosis and design)
– Testing the smile design (patient communication and data transfer)
– Adapting the smile design (ideal vs. reality)
– Guiding and controlling clinical execution by design
– Dentist-lab synergy in designing and restoring smiles.

During the course, you will:

– Hone your hand-eye coordination and smile design skills
– Understand discrepancies and create beautiful, natural solutions
– Integrate smile design seamlessly with treatment planning
– Master the fundamentals of dentofacial aesthetics
– Improve communication with specialists and your lab
– Gain inspiration for building your personal brand around your smile design expertise. 

PLEASE BRING:
- Your Mac laptop and iPad, fully charged, for the best course experience
- Download Keynote to your Mac laptop (If you don’t have either device, you can follow the cases in the workbook)
- Composite brushes and spatulas
- Curing light.

Bonus Features:
- 12-Month Mentorship with Christian Coachman
Course participants will join an exclusive mentoring group on WhatsApp for 12 months, where they can share cases, ask questions, and receive guidance from Christian Coachman.

- Three Bonus Webinars
Christian Coachman will host three exclusive webinars for course participants to present clinical cases and share his top smile design techniques.
 

PROGRAM

DAY 1

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Welcome coffee & registration

9:30 am – 12:00 pm – Session 1
- On-demand classes review
- Optical illusion and morphology
- 10 steps of the smile frame
- Smile design quality control.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch

1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Session 2
- Freehand drawing exercise: activating your artistic side
- Using Keynote for smile design and quality control
- DSD App demo.

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Coffee break

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Session 3
- Dealing with compromised situations: making teeth look longer/narrower and shorter/wider
- Esthetic diagnosis with Keynote
- Design strategy
- Demo execution on Exocad
- Execution on the model.

DAY 2

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Welcome coffee

9:30 am – 12:00 pm – Session 4
- Dealing with compromised situations 2 and 3: from fake/bulky to natural/delicate, and fixing axis and interproximal areas
- Esthetic diagnosis with Keynote
- Design strategy
- Demo execution on Exocad
- Execution on the model.

12:00 pm – 12:10 pm – Official group photo

12:10 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch

1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Session 5
- Dealing with compromised situation 4: avoiding the “banana look”
- Esthetic diagnosis with Keynote
- Design strategy
- Demo execution on Exocad
- Execution on the model.

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Coffee break

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Session 6
- The Pink Restoration strategy
- Dealing with compromised situation 5: ideal design for artificial pink
- Esthetic diagnosis with Keynote
- Design strategy
- Demo execution on Exocad
- Execution on the model
- Conclusions.

Course objectives:

– Understand the importance of and develop the skills to technically execute key smile design steps
– Refine artistic smile design skills and strengthen hand-eye coordination
– Explore how technicians can support dentists to increase case acceptance and enhance the patient experience
– Learn the fundamentals of creating natural-looking smile rehabilitations
– Develop effective collaboration strategies between dentists and technicians
– Learn how to integrate smile design with treatment planning effectively
– Understand norms and identify discrepancies for better problem-solving.