Core Functional Dentistry
Certificate: Track 3

Transformation in Action

You’re part of a network of clinicians and educators advancing whole-person, systems-based dental care. This program supports deeper clinical reasoning, collaboration, and application of functional frameworks in practice.

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Core Functional Dentistry Certificate: Track 3

The IFD Difference

Our residency-style curriculum ensures you develop a full-spectrum skill set,
integrating functional medicine and dentistry.

You will learn a systems-based approach rooted in the principles of Functional Medicine.

Integrated Functional Medicine Training

The program establishes a foundation in functional medicine principles,
paired with IFD-led case integration sessions.

Participants begin with a core clinical curriculum, supported by structured IFD integration sessions that translate systems-based concepts into oral-health–specific application.

Specialized IFD Modules

This program delivers the full IFD curriculum, a comprehensive and deeplyintegrated educational experience spanning the biological, clinical, behavioraland systems-based dimensions of functional dentistry.

Through more than 50 specialty-specific, pre-recorded lectures and 19 IFD integration sessions, participants explore oral-systemic health across nutrition, the microbiome, airway and pediatric development, periodontics, diagnostics, detoxification, regenerative and restorative sciences, bioenergetics, and practice leadership. The curriculum also addresses communication, ethics, resilience, and implementation within modern dental practice.

This immersive, case-based structure ensures clinicians move beyond theory into confident,systems-level application of functional dentistry.

Functional Learning Series

The Functional Learning Series deepens understanding of how interconnected

biological systems influence oral and whole-body health.


Content explores how internal and external factors affect inflammation, resilience,

detoxification and healing, with emphasis on clinically relevant patterns

impacting periodontal and oral-systemic outcomes. Sessions are delivered by experienced functional medicine physicians and tailored specifically to dental and hygiene practice.


Each component is supported by IFD Integration Sessions to reinforce application and synthesis.

Detailed Curriculum Breakdown

Track 3 is designed for dentists seeking deep integration and
clinical mastery within functional dentistry.

This curriculum develops the ability to recognize early oral–systemic patterns, apply systems-based clinical reasoning and translate functional insights into proactive, preventive dental care.

Program completion prepares dentists to serve as first detectors of dysfunction
within the healthcare team, as Oral Physicians.

Our motto is

#Mouth Matters| #Spit for Science| #Bridge the Gap


Join thousands of clinicians transforming the way they understand, diagnose, and address oral-systemic health.

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Continuing Education Disclosure:
Continuing education (CE) credit for the Institute for Functional Dentistry (IFD) Certification Program is awarded on a module-by-module basis in accordance with AGD PACE guidelines.

Each CE-eligible module consists of required educational components, which may include live and/or self-instruction lectures and associated assessments. Completion of all CE-eligible components and the module evaluation is required to earn CE credit.

Case studies, integration sessions, and discussion-based learning experiences are included for educational enrichment and applied learning but are designated as non-CE activities and do not carry continuing education credit.