Rejuvenation / The Institute

Where medicine and dentistry are taught in the same room.

The Curatola Institute is a teaching and research body for biologic and bioregulatory care — founded on the argument that the two professions were never meant to be separate.

001 / Why it exists

A century-old split, and the cost of it.

For a hundred years the mouth had its own schools, its own licences, its own literature. Physicians were not taught to look in it. Dentists were not taught to look past it.

The result: two professions treating one patient without speaking to each other. The Institute closes that gap where it actually gets fixed — in training.

002 / What the Institute does

Four functions, one purpose.

More than ten thousand dentists across twelve countries have already been taught this work.

Education

Dental and medical students taught the principles of bioregulation together, rather than in two buildings that never meet.

Research

Continuing the oral-microbiome work that produced the mouth-body framework, and the products built on it.

Accreditation

A standard for what biologic practice actually means, so the term stops being a marketing word anyone can use.

Collaboration

Built to work across the profession. Not another organisation with a fence around it.

003 / The record

Forty years of building the thing he now teaches.

The Institute did not appear from nowhere. It is the formal shape of work that has been going on since 1983.

10,000+Dentists taught

12Countries lectured in

3United States patents

2006Curatola Wing founded at NYU

40+Years in practice

1979

Colgate University. Biology and psychology, with a concentration in neuroscience.

1983

Doctor of Dental Surgery, New York University. Postdoctoral training in biologic dentistry follows under Dr. Alan Pressman.

1980s

Pioneers biologic restorative and cosmetic dentistry and consults on the development of biocompatible restorative materials, years before the field had a name.

1993

Trains with Dr. Werner Mörmann at the University of Zurich and becomes one of the first adopters of CEREC in the United States.

1996

Harvard Medical School, programme in complementary and alternative medicine under Dr. David Eisenberg. The oral-microbiome research begins here.

2006

Founds the Curatola Wing for Clinical Research at New York University to advance translational research, and receives the Acton Medal for his contribution to the university.

2007

Founds Rejuvenation Dentistry on an integrative model joining restorative, aesthetic and implant dentistry to a wellness-based approach.

Since

Three United States patents for nutritional formulations, and the invention of Revitin® — the first prebiotic oral care formulation.

004 / Faculty

Five dentists. One training.

Every clinician here trained under Dr. Curatola. The teaching does not stay in a lecture hall. It walks into the operatory.

Gerald P. Curatola
D.D.S., F.D.I.C.

Founder

Clinical Associate Professor, NYU College of Dentistry, 1996–2025.

Jeannie Grecco
D.D.S.

Biologic Restorative Dentistry

Syracuse, then NYU. Chief Dental Resident at Northwell Health. Member of the IAOMT, IABDM and ADA.

Philip Grecco
D.D.S.

Biologic Restorative Dentistry

NYU with honours, postdoctoral training at NYP-Weill Cornell, and further training at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

005 / The founder

Forty years of making the same argument.

Thirty years teaching at NYU. The Mouth-Body Connection. The oral-microbiome research the field now starts from. The Institute is where that becomes a curriculum.

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006 / The practice

Where the teaching is tested.

Rejuvenation Dentistry is where the Institute’s protocols are practised on real patients, every day, in two clinics. The research and the chair are not separate operations — one continually corrects the other.