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CACD Smile Gallery Competition
The CACD is hosting the Annual Smile Gallery Competition, which showcases CACD members’ clinical skills in cosmetic dentistry in a variety of categories. The Smile Gallery is a prestigious competition that highlights the dramatic effects of cosmetic dentistry at their finest.
All entries are judged by an anonymous panel of judges for the Designer and Signature Showcases. Conference attendees can vote for the People’s Choice Award.
Purpose
The Smile Gallery Competition is a CACD event organized to provide intelligent and constructive comments to the Competitor to foster their growth and development in the art and science of cosmetic dentistry.
Cases to be judged are to be entered under one of the following categories:
I. Designer Showcase: A Celebration of Enhanced Smiles
In this category, multiple restorations are used to improve a patient's smile.
1. Indirect Restorations
2. Direct Restorations
3. Missing Anterior Tooth Restorations – Bridge or Implant
II. Signature Showcase: Fooling The Eye
In this category, the restoration(s) intend to mimic nature.
1. Single Unit Anterior or Posterior Esthetics – Crowns, Onlays, Bridges, Implants
2. Special Effects
This competition takes place completely online, therefore all submissions must be in digital format. All entries will be posted anonymously on the CACD website for viewing and the judging will be done from that vantage point as well
No photographs are to be submitted except those taken by the dentist or the ceramist.
Included with the entry form should be a paragraph about the type of media used (the equipment, film type, etc.) and the lighting utilized so that we all can learn and benefit.
Photos must be in JPEG format but any orientation is acceptable but no post-production manipulation (air-brushing, digital enhancements, etc.) is allowed.
Presentation of Entries
This competition is to be a celebration of the competitors' work, but be thoughtful of the judges. It is easier to be precise and fair when the quality of the photography is excellent and standardized views are presented. Please provide the following photographs:
Designer Showcase:
1. Before and After headshots at 10:1 - 'Glam' after views OK
2. Before and After smiles at 2:1
3. Before and After retracted views at 2:1
Signature Showcase:
1. Before and After headshots at 10:1 - 'Glam' after views OK
2. Before and After smiles at 2:1
3. Before and After retracted views at 2:1
4. 1 or 2 views that demonstrate necessary lab work or other items of interest.
Awards are presented as follows:
I. Designer Showcase: A Celebration of Enhanced Smiles
Points Level Award
14.0 – 15.9 Acceptable Bronze Medal
16.0 – 17.9 Good Silver Medal
18.0 – 20.0 Excellent Gold Medal
II. Signature Showcase: Fooling The Eye
Points Level Award
9.0 – 9.9 Acceptable Bronze Medal
10.0 – 10.9 Good Silver Medal
11.0 – 12.0 Excellent Gold Medal
Both the dentist and the ceramist will be awarded in cases involving indirect work.
This system allows for multiple awards to be presented based on the merits of the individual cases. For example, in any one showcase, three gold medals, six silver medals and eighteen bronze medals may be awarded depending on the quality of the competitor's cases.
The Steward in charge of the event will coordinate the efforts of the competition judges, tabulate the results and present the awards where appropriate. The awards shall be under the control of the CACD Executive Office and will not be presented except by their authority. It is expected that the nature of these awards will change with time, and that these changes will occur at the discretion of the Executive Office.
After the competition, the Steward will ensure that names of non-medal winners are not made public. Scores of the individual cases should NEVER be published. The Steward will ensure that any lists published on the internet or elsewhere contain names and awards only. It is important that private information such as addresses and phone numbers not be made public. The competitor must submit an ENTRY FORM along with the cases. The cases, completed entry form, and entry fees must be received by the CACD Executive Office by the deadline date.
The competition is open to all CACD members in good standing who attend the Annual Scientific Session. A competitor may not be a judge of any category that he or she has entered. All entries become property of the CACD. Entry fees are $20 per case.
Judging of the cases will be based on a points system. A total of 20 points can be awarded from five separate divisions for the cases entered under the Designer Showcase and a total of twelve points from four separate divisions can be awarded for the Signature Showcase case.
A pair of anonymous judges will review each case in the Designer and Signature Showcases together and award a point score between them.
The Judges are to provide brief but intelligent and constructive comments on their score sheets, which will be mailed to competitors after the convention. The identities of the judges will not be revealed at any time to the competitors.
Competitors enter this event in part to improve their skills. They want to know why their cases have scored as they have, particularly when the scores are low. Judges are asked to pinpoint as accurately as they can why they have assigned the score they have, especially when the score is not high.
Start by downloading the instructions and then by downloading and filling out a PDF entry form. |
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