Digital Dental Revolution

Dr. Alessandro Agnini graduated in 1989 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He practices in his Modena and Sassuolo offices, where he devotes himself exclusively to the disciplines of fixed prosthetics, periodontology, and implantology. Active Member of the Italian Academy of Osseointegration (IAO), Italian Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (IAED), Digital Implant and Rehabilitation Academy (DIRA), International Digital Dental Academy (IDDA), from 2006 to 2020 Italian Academy of Prosthetic Dentistry (AIOP). Founding member of the Italian Society of Prosthetics and Oral Rehabilitation (SIPRO). Author and coauthor of scientific publications in national and international journals and speaker at national and international congresses. Since 2011, he has been a speaker at www.dentalxp.com, of which he is a member of the editorial board. Author of the books The Digital Revolution: the Learning Curve and The Digital Revolution 2.0: Clinico-Technical Applications in Daily Practice published by Quintessence Publishing Italy in 2014 and 2022, respectively. ANDI Modena cultural secretary from March 2013 to March 2019. Founder, together with his brother, of Digital Dental Revoultion (DDR) Education, a company whose aim is to organize and participate in congresses and courses in Italy and abroad on dental updating.

He works as a freelancer in Modena and Sassuolo, together with his brother Alessandro. He attended a master's degree cource at New York university in 2009 to 2011, with Dr Dennis Tarnow, Dr Christian Stappert, Dr Stephen Chu and Dr Michael Bral, among others, as teachers and mentors. He was in the academic year 2010 to 2011 Clinical Research Fellow of the Ashman Department of Periodontics and Implantology at New York University, working with Dr Sang Choon Cho. Since 2011, he has been a speaker at www.dentalxp.com where he is part of the editorial board. Author and coauthor of scientific publications in national and international journals and speaker at national and international congresses. Author of the books The Digital Revolution: the Learning Curve and The Digital Revolution 2.0: Clinicao-Technical Applications in Daily Practice published by Quintessence Publishing Italy in 2014 and 2022, respectively. Founder, together with his brother Alessandro, of DDR Education, a company whose aim is to organize and participate in congresses and courses in Italy and abroad on dental updating. Active member of DIRA since 2020, active member of the Digital Dentistry Society (DDS) and founding member of SIPRO.

Dr. Coachman graduated in Dental Technology in 1995 and in Dentistry in 2002 from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the only dental practitioner to be a member of the Brazilian, European, and American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, the three most important such academies in the world. In 2004, he was invited by Goldstein, Garber, and Salama to become Head Ceramist at their laboratory in Atlanta, a position he held for over 4 years. Dr. Coachman has worked with many leading dental practitioners and developed concepts that are renowned worldwide, such as Digital Smile Design (DSD), the pink hybrid restoration, the Digital Planning Center, emotional dentistry, interdisciplinary treatment simulation, and Digital Smile Donator. He is also Director of the DSD Residency program that offers continuing education courses for dental professionals from all over the world. In 2017, Dr. Coachman became an adjunct professor in the restorative department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and, in 2018, coordinator of the Digital Dentistry postgraduate program at the University Avantis in Balneario Camboriu, Brazil. Founder and CEO of the DSD-Digital Smile Design company. Dr. Coachman also works as a consultant for dental companies and offices, developing products and implementing concepts and marketing strategies, such as the facially driven digital orthodontic workflow developed in collaboration with Align Technology. He has lectured and published internationally in the fields of esthetic and digital dentistry, dental photography, oral rehabilitation, dental ceramics, implants, and communication strategies and marketing in dentistry.