Digital Smile Donator consists in transferring a donor’s smile to the receiving patient’s mouth. This means that the patient can get the smile of celebrity, familiar, even from himself when he was young.
Digital Technology allows that the Scan Donator files are prepared and imported to the library of the 3D Smile Design Software. The natural shapes of the donator are than used over the model of the patient to design the new smile.
Finally, the smile design is adjusted to the patient’s face. The Smile Design project is printed and the mock-up is preformed, so we can do facial pictures with the mock-up to be presented to the patient.
How the Concept was born?
Christian Coachman: The Digital Smile Donator concept was inspired by the initial idea of Dr Paulo Kano of scanning natural teeth to design CAD/CAM restorations, instead of using handmade shapes or computer suggested shapes. We immediately saw the potential of bringing his concept into a complete digital solution and the NemoDSD3D software was the first one, 3 years ago, to add natural shapes into the digital library and the DSD Planning Center was a pioneer on serving dentists with this technology.
How important is this Concept to the Dental World?
Christian Coachman: In my opinion, the concept of fully digital restorations, integrated with faces and using natural shapes will revolutionize the dental restorative world. This will become the golden standard very soon and many top dentist/technicians are already embracing this workflow and taking it to the next level. This workflow will mainly take over because of its simplicity, allowing more dentists to serve more patients with natural smiles.
What impact does Digital Technology has on processes and what are the main advantages?
Christian Coachman: None of these amazing ideas are possible in the analogue world, so even though dentistry still and will forever require great hand skills, artistry, knowledge and experience; technology will allow us to incorporate new amazing solutions to our tool box and will make dentistry more predictable and efficient.
Can any patient have the smile they want?
Christian Coachman: Of course achieving great smile with dental work requires a great team. The patient will have a great result with the combination between great professionals and modern digital solutions. With this combination, the sky is the limit nowadays.
Can any doctor perform the Digital Smile Donator Project?
Christian Coachman: Yes, any doctor can perform the smile donator concept. It is actually very simple like any good idea. Simplicity is the key. The DSD Planning Center is also a great way for dentists to enter the digital world without having to invest and/or go through tough learning curve. Anybody can try the Smile Menu and Smile Donator concept tomorrow morning! The dentist can use of the smiles from our menu or even send us the smile donator file that they want to use. They just need to scan the beautiful teeth of the donator and send to us.
Does the doctor need any specific skills to perform The Digital Smile Donator?
Christian Coachman: As I mentioned above, no training is required besides scanning the patient’s mouth and selecting the smile donator from the menu.
Images of The Digital Smile Donator Conferences Worldwide by Christian Coachman
