Dr. Bozidar "Bole" Kuljic
Dr. Kuljic has spent more than three decades practicing restorative dentistry at the highest level, and teaching it to other dentists as a mentor and clinical instructor at the Kois Center.
One question kept guiding his work: why do some restorations fail while others last?
The answer increasingly pointed beyond the teeth themselves, to the bite, the jaw joints, muscle function, and the airway.
His Story
Dr. Kuljic was introduced to airway dentistry by his colleague and fellow Kois Center clinical instructor, Dr. Gary Umeda of Hawaii, whose insight and encouragement shaped his thinking for years.
On Dr. Umeda's recommendation, Dr. Kuljic completed an Airway Mini-Residency in 2017 under Dr. Mark Cruz and Dr. Barry Raphael, where he built a foundational understanding of how systemic health, airway function, epigenetics, and dental health connect. That training, together with his orthodontic studies in 2004, completed a larger picture that his restorative work had only hinted at.
In 2023, Dr. Kuljic published a 14-year case study in Compendium documenting how compromised breathing, and the problems that follow from it, can undermine even excellent dental work.
That is the dentistry practiced here: not only restoring what is damaged, but understanding why it failed, so the result has a better chance to last.
Career Highlights
Dr. Kuljic founded the practice in Beverly in 1999 and, with his wife Dr. Natasa Mandic-Kuljic, established Dentistry of Newburyport in 2013.
He is a former Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and he completed advanced training in surgical gum treatment through Dr. Pat Allen's "20/20 Oral Plastic Surgery" program.
Outside the practice, he and Natasa are raising four sons. He reads widely, takes photographs, and skis whenever New England gives him the chance.
