Smile Analysis System: Diagnostic Foundations — Dr. Elaine Halley, AI-Driven Diagnostics + Facially Driven Treatment Planning: Macro, Mid & Micro

Most clinicians don’t struggle with knowledge, they struggle with consistency. This course gives you a structured system for diagnosis, smile design, treatment planning, and patient communication so you can reduce surprises, improve case acceptance, and deliver more predictable outcomes.

  • Stop guessing. Start diagnosing with a system.
  • Use AI to sharpen judgment, not replace it.
  • Leverage facially driven treatment planning: Macro, Mid & Micro.
  • Present cases with a repeatable framework that drives patient decisions.
  • Connect aesthetics, function, and occlusion from day one.
  • Build workflows that make exceptional outcomes repeatable.

ENTIRE COURSE · 16 CE HOURS

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$2,695

  • 6 Modules Across 3 Sections
  • On-Demand and Live
  • AGD PACE CE Included
AGD PACE Approved Provider
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Section 1

Diagnostic Foundations

The First Step in Predictable Smile Design: Macro, Mid & Micro

Modules 01–02 · 4 CE hours

You’ll walk away with

  • Apply a step-by-step diagnostic workflow — Capture, Organize, Distill, Present
  • Integrate AI into diagnostics without losing clinical judgment
  • The Guided Observation Record, ready to use Monday morning

Modules in this section

ON-DEMAND60 min · 1 CE

AI-Driven Diagnostics: Clinical Intelligence, Not Clinical Replacement

See more and miss less, use AI without losing clinical judgment.

LIVE3 hrs · 3 CE

Facially Driven Treatment Planning: Macro, Mid & Micro

Use Guided Observation to read every smile through one repeatable clinical framework.

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Section 2

Design & Patient Communication

Modules 03–04 · 6 CE hours

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Section 3

Systems, Occlusion & Long-Term Success

Modules 05–06 · 6 CE hours

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Course Instructor

Dr. Elaine Halley

BDS, MSc

@drelainehalley

Dr. Elaine Halley has spent over thirty years in private practice and is one of the UK's most recognized voices in comprehensive treatment planning. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, achieved her MSc in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry with Distinction from the University of Manchester, and completed advanced cosmetic dentistry training at the Rosenthal Institute in New York.

A founder and past president of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr. Halley remains one of only a handful of accredited members in the UK. She is a Digital Smile Design KOL, an official DSD instructor, and a member of Align Technology's Global Faculty. She is the principal dentist at Cherrybank Dental Spa in Perth, Scotland, the practice she founded in 1995, and the Clinical Director of the Pain Free Dental Group across Scotland, where she mentors associates on diagnosis and treatment planning every week.

Her premise is straightforward: most cases that don’t go to plan aren’t skill problems. They’re diagnosis problems. The Smile Analysis System is the framework she built to make complete diagnosis achievable in a live clinical environment. It’s the system she uses on every comprehensive case in her own practice. In her words, "your mouth is like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. If you’re changing one part of it, that has a knock-on effect with everything else." Her work, her teaching, and her textbook Smile Analysis all start from that single observation.

  • MSc in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry, Distinction, University of Manchester. The first UK Master’s-level degree to include aesthetic dentistry.
  • Digital Smile Design KOL. Official DSD instructor.
  • Founder and past president, British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Accredited member, one of only a handful in the UK.
  • Author of Smile Analysis. Member of Align Technology’s Global Faculty. Clinical Director, Pain Free Dental Group.
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