Designing Smiles
with Christian Coachman
Two days of advanced hands-on training for restorative dentists and dental technicians.
What makes a smile look natural and harmonious? And how can you translate a great smile design into a successful restoration, from initial planning to the final result?
In this course, Christian Coachman shows you how to plan, evaluate, and refine aesthetic treatment outcomes. The focus is not only on digital smile design tools, but also on understanding tooth shapes, proportions, and aesthetic principles.
The course combines hands-on exercises, real patient cases, and direct interaction with Christian Coachman.
Course Details
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
3.000 € per person*
19 - 20 February 2027 (English)
*Price doesn’t include VAT. includes lunch, coffee breaks and drinks.
Course Content:
✓ Facial Analysis and Smile Design
What makes a smile look natural and harmonious? Explore how facial proportions, tooth shapes, and gingival contours work together, and how to use these principles to create balanced, natural-looking smile designs.
✓ Better Communication Between Dentists and Technicians
Great aesthetic results depend on clear communication between the clinic and the lab. Learn how to communicate your vision, evaluate designs together, and provide precise feedback to avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary adjustments.
✓ Overcome Aesthetic Challenges
Not every case starts with ideal conditions. Explore how adjustments to tooth shape, proportions, and optical illusions can help improve challenging cases and create more natural-looking restorations.
✓ Evaluate and Refine Restorations
Learn how to critically assess mock-ups, provisionals, and final restorations, identify areas for improvement, and make necessary aesthetic adjustments with greater confidence and independence.
✓ Treatment Planning and Patient Communication
A Smile design is a valuable tool for both treatment planning and patient communication. Discover how to visualize proposed changes, explain treatment options clearly, and help patients better understand their treatment plans.
Why mastering quality smile design matters
Better aesthetic outcomes
For the patient, the esthetic outcome quality will represent the quality of the whole treatment. Patient will judge the aesthetic outcome more than anything else. This topic is related to the DSD Guided Dentistry pillar.
Stronger treatment planning
Smile design is the starting point of modern treatment planning. An adequate smile design will serve as a reliable reference for planning decisions. This topic is related to the DSD Comprehensive Dentistry pillar.
Higher case acceptance
Smile Designs will influence the case acceptance process since a quality smile design process will facilitate the emotional link between patient and treatment plan. This topic is related to the DSD Emotional Dentistry pillar.
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