Dr. Jurina Smida DDS

Dr. Jurina Smida has received a degree in dentistry as well as a degree in Naturopathic Medicine. In her Petaluma dental office, she combines the latest technologies with a proven holistic approach to health and wellness.

Dr. Smida attended medical school in Slovakia, which was, at the time, Czechoslovakia under a communist regime. Her initial desire was to be a surgeon. The societal norm for women in that country was, however, to pursue dentistry or pediatric medicine. Seeing the opportunity to become an oral surgeon, she chose to study dentistry. She graduated from the Komensky School of Dentistry with her Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry degree (DMD) in 1975.

A hallmark of Dr. Smida’s career, and her life, has been the continual dedication to optimal performance in whatever she does. Frustration at the limitations imposed within a communist-ruled country, she and her husband made the life-changing decision to leave all that they knew and loved behind in order to achieve a better quality of life. During a 1985 vacation to Yugoslavia, they sought and received political asylum.