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Digital Smile Design end to end — 47 lessons from photo protocol to full-arch implant cases
Christian Coachman, who created Digital Smile Design, teaches the whole workflow in DSD Photography-to-Prosthetics Workflow MasterClass. Across four modules and roughly four and three-quarter hours it runs from precise photo and video capture, through silicone index fabrication and the planning centre, into a detailed full-arch implant restoration masterclass.
- 4modules
- 47lessons
- 4 h 42 minof video
What you’ll be able to do
- Capture a complete photo and video record of the patient
- Produce and trim a reliable silicone index
- Order and manage cases through the planning centre
- Translate a digital plan into analog chairside tools
- Apply the protocol to a full-arch implant case start to finish
Inside the course
Documentation and index
The first modules establish the video and full photo protocol, then demonstrate which material to use for the silicone index and how to mix, place and cut it.
The planning centre
You learn how the planning service works and how to register, order a case, choose ideal and functional designs, plan interdisciplinary cases and manage modifications.
Full-arch implant masterclass
The longest module follows an All-on-X case across appointments — digitalisation, guided osteotomy, immediate loading, multi-unit placement and occlusal adjustment.
Built for
- Restorative and implant dentistsA complete digital route from records to delivery.
- ProsthodontistsFull-arch execution planned and rehearsed digitally.
- Digital-workflow adoptersHow capture, planning and analog tools connect.
Curriculum
Module 1: DSD Photo & Video Protocol (17 min) 7 lessons
- Intro to patient digitalization
- Introduction video protocol
- Interview video
- Extra videos
- Why is the video so important
- Interview video (live patient)
- Full photo protocol
Module 2: DSD Silicon Index Manufacture (20 min) 6 lessons
- What material should you use for the silicone index
- What is the correct way to produce the silicone index
- How do you cut the silicone index
- Silicone index demonstration (materials)
- Silicone index demonstration (mixing and placing silicone)
- Silicone index demonstration (how to cut the silicone index)
Module 3: DSD Planning Center (55 min) 15 lessons
- What is the DSD Planning Center
- How the DSD Planning Center works
- The Planning Center philosophy
- How to register to the planning center
- How to manage your account
- How to order a case
- Initial products — Ideal Design
- Difference between Ideal pre & post-treatment
- Functional Design
- Interdisciplinary planning
- DSD & Invisalign collaboration
- Upload files
- Planning Center Presentation components
- Case modifications
- Order your first case
Module 4: DSD Full Arch Implant Restorations MasterClass (3 h 10 min) 19 lessons
- 1st appointment full arch implant restorations
- 2nd appointment full arch implant restoration
- 3rd appointment full arch implant restoration
- All on X case 1
- All on X patient digitalization
- Case presentation — Implants planning
- Case presentation — Initial files
- Case presentation — Smile design and Smile Test Drive
- Case presentation — Clic Guide sequence
- Clinical — Base guide fixation
- Clinical — Guided Osteotomy
- Clinical — Immediate loading capture
- Clinical — Implants placement
- Clinical — Multi-unit placement
- Clinical — Occlusion adjustments
- Clinical — Suture
- CR & OVD in Edentulous patients
- The power of overlapping
- The power of the 3D planning
Before you buy
Is the planning centre a paid external service?
The module explains how the planning centre works and how to order cases; any case fees are handled through that service, separate from this course.
How much is hands-on clinical footage?
The full-arch module is the longest section and follows a live implant case through surgery and restoration.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Online video course |
|---|---|
| Instructor | Christian Coachman |
| Contents | 4 modules · 47 lessons |
| Duration | 4 h 42 min |
| Access | Lifetime, self-paced |
| Department | Dentistry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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