STONY BROOK, NY, February 16, 2021— According to Dental Products Reports, about 60 percent of people have anxiety about going to the dentist. But who can have anxiety when your dentist grooves like this? No one, that’s who.
Varun Goyal, a third-year student at Stony Brook University’s School of Dental Medicine, was always passionate about dancing. It was his way to decompress and let his creativity flow, he says. He was also always sure he wanted to work in the medical field, however, he wasn’t sure if he was ever going to be able to bring his second love — dance — into the mix.
“I always wanted to be a part of the healthcare community because it would allow me to grow as a person while making a change in someone else’s life. When I got into dental school, I told myself I wouldn’t stop dancing, but I never thought I would find a way to integrate the two,” he says.
During his first year of dental school, Goyal also had the opportunity to dance with K-Pop group BTS, while still completing his studies. However, there was still seemingly no way to integrate the two. Content to let each part of his life stand alone, it was a moment of inspiration sparked during the COVID-19 Pandemic that changed things for him.
Inspired by Drake’s “Toosie Slide,” Goyal noticed “toosie” could easily be replaced by variants of the word “tooth.” From there, he says, he could no longer stop thinking about how to integrate dental lingo into other songs. Now, Goyal combines his love for dance with his future career in dentistry for the world to see by creating amazing, high-energy videos to well-known pop hits that include ties to his sector of the oral health field.
“Being able to do both dance and dentistry is so fulfilling,” says Goyal.
Goyal’s premiere video can be viewed here. Or you can check out his Instagram page for more of his videos.
About Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University, widely regarded as a SUNY flagship, is going far beyond the expectations of today’s public universities. With more than 26,000 students, 2,700 faculty members, over 200,000 alumni, an academic medical center and 18 NCAA Division I athletic programs, it is one of only four University Center campuses in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The University embraces its mission to provide comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, and professional education of the highest quality, and has been ranked among the top 35 public universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Fostering a commitment to academic research and intellectual endeavors, Stony Brook’s membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU) places it among the top 65 research institutions in North America. The University’s distinguished faculty have earned esteemed awards such as the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Indianapolis Prize for animal conservation, Abel Prize and the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Part of the management team of Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Stony Brook is one of only eight universities that has a role in running a national laboratory. Providing economic growth for neighboring communities and the wider geographic region, the University totals an impressive $7.23 billion in increased economic output on Long Island. Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stonybrooku/) and Twitter (@stonybrooku).
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