Dallas Functional Dentistry

Dr. Sarah Tevis is a part of the inaugural Institute of Functional Dentistry (IFD) cohort! The IFD is the world’s first residency-level functional dentistry certification program that also combines the Institute of Functional Medicine (AFMCP) accredited program. The program is built on: systems biology and oral-systemic science, evidence-based education, training clinicians to treat the whole patient, not just the mouth. Dentistry and medicine have operated in silos for too long. IFD exists to close that gap through a new lens. We are so excited to be in this group and to share more knowledge with our patients and with our referring health care providers!

Out of the office Dr. Tevis can sometimes be found on a river fly fishing! It is good to have hobbies that get us out in nature. Being near or in water has beneficial healing energy and is calming.

We love the benefits of ozone and use it in our water, in the mouth, topically in oils and products!

We give advice for tacos🤣🌮. Such a fun afternoon at Top Golf with our team! ⛳️. Wha should we do next??

Celebrating Dental Hygienist Appreciation week! We love Kisha and April, our dental hygienist super stars!✨ Give them some love!!!

Our doctors attended the (IABDM) International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine conference in Austin “Biohacking in Dentistry”. They enjoyed courses on the dangers of mercury exposure, cellular detox, red light therapy, Vitamin C therapies, ozone, peptides, zirconia implants, 3D imaging to look for extraction sites that don’t heal, vitamins and nutrition, biologic surgeries, oral microbiome testing, hyperbarics, and more. More to come…

We love transforming healthy smiles! This case we started with Invisalign to improve the teeth alignment and the bite, creating room for very conservative veneer preps to keep as much natural tooth as possible. Then, we created a cosmetic mockup design with our lab technician. This allowed us to create the veneers with the end result in mind and trial temporaries to ensure we like the design. The final veneers were bonded on and then protected with Invisalign retainers.

Happy Dental Assistant Appreciation to our bestest dental assistants!

We love you both and

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