Main goals of the DSD Concept:
1. Improving the Smile Design process and transforming the patient into a co-author
of his/her own new smile. Utilising Morpho-Psychology
2. Developing a Communication protocol that facilitates real and daily
Interdisciplinary Dentistry.
3. Increasing the perceived value of a dental treatment and consequently case
acceptance through the Emotional Dentistry approach.
4. Integrating Technology to generate efficient and predictable clinical procedures.
Making the final outcome more similar to the initial project presented to the patient.
The DSD workflow starts with specific videos of the patient that will allow the
development of a “Facially Guided Smile Frame” that will suggest the ideal 3D
position of the upper jaw (teeth and gingiva) according to lips and face in motion.
This initial 2D frame will be translated into a interdisciplinary software platform that
will connect the smile design project into function, digital orthodontics, orhtognathic
software, guided surgery and CAD/CAM, allowing the team to use this digital tool to
improve the decision making process during treatment planning and also develop all
kinds of devices to perform the treatment according to this plan. Obviously that this
process decreases drastically the amount of esthetic intra oral adjustments and also
works as an amazing educational tool to improve the communication between
dentists and patient.