New York City, New York
Jeffrey L. Gurian, DDS, received his dental degree from the Temple University School of Dentistry in 1971 and was one of the earliest practitioners of what is now known as cosmetic dentistry. He spent 25 years in private practice. He also served as a consultant to several dental manufacturers and lectured on cosmetic bonding at dental conferences in New York, California and Hawaii.
He went on to become a clinical professor at New York University for 12 years in the Oral Medicine/Oro-Facial Pain Department where, he lectured to the faculty on his alternative approach to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction. His approach dealt specifically with the treatment of headaches and facial pain using only the gentle manual manipulation of two muscles — with a technique he developed.
He was also a presenter at The Greater New York Dental Conference at the Javits Center on this same technique, which he calls S.T.A.R. Therapy: an acronym for spiritual, transformational, affirmative therapy, a gentle system of “talk and touch.” He also spent 20 years on the board of The Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy lecturing at Energy Psychology conferences in the United States and Canada on happiness, mindset and changing negative thinking to positive thinking.
In 1999, he opened a healing center called The Happiness Center™ in Manhattan, New York, in a physician’s office where he was treating the physical symptoms of stress, often with a TMJ causation due to bruxism.
In 2021, he did a series of weekly lectures for the doctors at Temple University on happiness, stress control, mindset, changing negative thinking to positive thinking and his unique approach to treating temporomandibular disorders.
What makes Gurian different from any other speaker in the dental world is that he is the only dentist with a longstanding comedy career, having worked with, written for and performed with legends ranging from Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Gilbert Gottfried and Andrew “Dice” Clay to the superstars of today like Tracy Morgan, Bill Burr, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney.
Gurian has been profiled on the cover of The New York Times, in one of the premier magazines in The Hamptons and on the cover of the January 2023 issue of Sutton Place Social magazine for his multiple careers. He is a frequent fixture on Page Six in the New York Post, the most powerful entertainment column in the country.
He is a motivational speaker on happiness, a radio and TV personality, a producer, director, and an Amazon bestselling author with eight books: five on comedy and three on happiness. He has been featured on every TV station coming out of New York and is a frequent guest on both WABC radio and Sirius XM, where he was a regular for two years with Ron Bennington, who hosts the top-rated Bennington Show.
He is also a frequent guest on podcasts, most recently on “Dentists In The Know,” and is in the process of developing two new television shows, one as an executive producer and one as a story consultant.
He also developed a cure for stuttering, which he used to cure himself, and he now works with stutterers all over the world. Gurian lives in New York to stay close to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Kathryn, and their amazing families.
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KEY - Surviving a Career in Dentistry Utilizing Positive Thinking and Humor
Thursday, July 18, 2024
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM CDT