A Long Island dentist is back at work — though not filling cavities just yet — months after he was paralyzed by a monster 8-foot wave that slammed into him during a “mancation” in the Dominican Republic.

John Brofsky, 62, was on his 13th annual trip with his pals in the Caribbean country on March 1 when he was struck by the massive wave while standing in only about 3 feet of water, ABC 7 reported.

“I wasn’t surfing or doing anything crazy, I was looking the wrong way,” Brofsky told the station. “The wave hit me, my head hit the ground, my neck snapped back and I was paralyzed.”

He was no longer able to move his arms and legs, and held his breath as he floated stomach-down, he said.

He recalled even “having a conversation with God,” praying that his life would be spared because he was awaiting the birth of his first grandchild.

His friend Jim Lawler quickly came to his aid.

“I never thought I would be the guy in the ocean saying I needed help, but I screamed out that I needed help and a guy from the right and a woman from the left came over,” Lawler told the station. “They each grabbed one side of his head and neck and back and we tried to get him to the shore.”

Brofsky spent time at a Santo Domingo hospital and then was flown by Medevac to North Shore University Hospital for a two-and-a-half-hour spinal surgery, according to the report.

Doctors were skeptical whether Brofksy would ever walk again — but five weeks later, he was back on his feet.

By June, he was back at work — and though he still can’t hold a drill, he’s back to teaching dentistry at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, according to the report.

“It was a great recovery, especially from being not able to walk or feed myself to being back here teaching,” Brofsky told the outlet. “The best part of the story is I get to hold my grandson who was born, and when I saw the baby, I did cry like a baby.”

Brofsky’s recovery comes amid a slew of reported deaths among American tourists staying at resorts in the Dominican Republic.

Authorities were eyeing the possibility that bootleg liquor has poisoned guests.

But the State Department has insisted that there has not been an uptick in tourist fatalities in the country — and the country’s Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier García has said that there is nothing unusual about the recent deaths.