How to survive a career in dentistry using positive thinking and humor

Title: How to survive a career in dentistry using positive thinking and humor

Abstract:

Dentistry is one of the most stressful professions. Especially in today’s world. Only another dentist knows what it’s like. Mindset and how we process things is critically important to our success and our survival. Everyone also knows that laughter is the best medicine. Who better to learn this from and reinforce these principles, than the only dentist with a long standing, nationally recognized career in comedy. Literally the only one in the United States, and probably in the world. He was the Keynote Speaker for AGD ’24 at the request of AGD Pres. Dr. Merlin Ohmer and was the Keynote Speaker for the Oregon Dental Conference, April 2025.

Biography:

Jeffrey L. Gurian holds the unique position of being the only dentist with a long-standing career as a nationally known comedian, comedy writer and dentist who got his start from Saturday Night Live and has worked with the biggest comedy stars in the US while running a large successful cosmetic dental practice. He’s been profiled in the NY Times, several magazines. and on every TV station coming out of NYC. He spent 20 years on the Board of The Assoc. for Spirituality and Psychotherapy teaching in their 1 year course, and lecturing at Energy Psychology Conferences, as well as at NYU and Temple University School of Dentistry on wellness, and relieving migraine-type headaches and other physical symptoms of stress often with a TMD causation.