Functional Dentistry Seminars & Hands-On Courses

Live functional dentistry education provides something online learning cannot replicate: structured hands-on practice, direct clinical supervision, and the ability to work through diagnostic reasoning with expert faculty in real time. This page lists upcoming functional dentistry seminars, congresses, conferences, and hands-on workshops from OHI-S — covering occlusion, TMJ disorders, bruxism, orofacial pain, splint therapy, postural dysfunction, craniomandibular assessment, articulator work, facebow transfer, and interdisciplinary functional rehabilitation. Events span multiple cities and clinical levels, from focused practical workshops to advanced interdisciplinary courses.

• Practical, live clinical education — hands-on workshops, supervised clinical exercises, and case-based instruction grounded in real diagnostic and therapeutic protocols
• International faculty and events — learn from leading functional dentistry clinicians across events in Budapest, Warsaw, Dubai, Vienna, and other locations
• Topic and format-based discovery — browse upcoming events by clinical focus, city, or faculty to find the seminar or workshop that matches your learning objective

Functional Dentistry Seminars and Live Training for Dentists

Functional dentistry seminars deliver structured scientific content — diagnostic logic, treatment rationale, case sequencing — from faculty who apply the same methods in their own clinical practice. For clinicians building systematic knowledge in occlusion, TMD, or bruxism management, live seminars and congresses provide direct exposure to how complex functional cases are evaluated and treated, with the opportunity to ask questions, discuss edge cases, and engage with clinical reasoning in ways that pre-recorded content does not support. ADA credits are available upon request on eligible events.

Why Live Format Matters in Functional Dentistry

Functional dentistry is a discipline where diagnostic accuracy depends on calibrated clinical judgment — recognizing the right signs, applying assessment tools correctly, and interpreting findings in the context of the full clinical picture. Live education accelerates this calibration. Watching an experienced clinician perform a condylography assessment, mount casts in an articulator, or demonstrate TMJ palpation protocols in real time conveys procedural nuance that written descriptions and video demonstrations can only approximate.

Hands-on workshops go further: supervised practice with clinical instrumentation, splint fitting, facebow transfer, and articulator mounting — with faculty available to correct technique in the moment — builds procedural competence more efficiently than self-directed study. For dentists integrating new diagnostic systems into practice, this level of direct feedback is often the deciding factor in whether the system is adopted consistently or inconsistently.

Topics Covered in Functional Dentistry Live Events

Topics across current and upcoming events include occlusion restoration, craniomandibular dysfunction assessment, cranio-cervico-mandibular relationship evaluation, postural dysfunction and osteopathic approaches, splint therapy protocols and fabrication, TMJ disorder treatment, disc displacement management, bruxism management, orofacial pain evaluation, analog and digital articulator mounting, facebow transfer, condylography and condylar movement analysis, MRI integration for TMD, cervical stabilization techniques, and interdisciplinary functional rehabilitation sequencing. Events taught within specific clinical systems — Sadao Sato's concept, Rudolf Slavicek's concept, and others — are clearly attributed to their faculty.

How to Choose the Right Functional Dentistry Seminar or Practical Course

Dentists who need to update their understanding of TMD diagnosis, orofacial pain classification, or occlusal management rationale will benefit most from seminars and congresses that deliver structured scientific content. Clinicians who need to develop a specific procedural skill — splint fabrication, articulator mounting, facebow transfer, or hands-on assessment protocols — will get more from a practical workshop where supervised exercises are built into the program.

Browse by topic, city, or faculty to identify the event that addresses your specific clinical gap. Faculty at functional dentistry events includes Jeffrey P. Okeson, Gregor Slavicek, Ambra Michelotti, Mariano Rocabado, Jean-Daniel Orthlieb, Barry Glassman, Martin Gross, and Daniel Paesani.

More Ways to Learn Functional Dentistry

• All Functional Dentistry Learning — The complete OHI-S functional dentistry hub: online courses, free content, and live events
• Online Functional Dentistry Courses — Structured on-demand courses and lessons with CE credits on eligible content
• Free Functional Dentistry Learning — Clinical videos, webinars, and introductory content at no cost