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Dentists in Manahawkin – Stafford, NJ: Every License Checked, and How Each Practice Takes New Patients

Dentists in Manahawkin – Stafford, with “NJ dental license, checked Nov 2026” for each.

By Tiffany Slowinski

Published November 9, 2026 | Updated November 10, 2026

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The Guide: Dentists in Manahawkin – Stafford, NJ

New Jersey licenses dentists as individuals, not as practices. The state keeps a public register of every dentist it has licensed, with a number and a current status, and anyone can search it for free. It takes about a minute, and the steps are at the bottom of this page.

This guide lists general dental practices with an office in Stafford Township, Tuckerton or Little Egg Harbor, names the dentists each practice names on its own website, and shows what the state register said about each of those names on the day we checked. It also records who owns each practice and how each one takes a new patient, in each practice’s own words.

The Practices, Compared

This is not a ranking.
Listed alphabetically. The dentists column shows names exactly as each practice writes them on its own website; where a practice has no website we could find, the name comes from the business profile it maintains on Google, and the cell and the entry say so. The license column shows the status the New Jersey register returned for each name on the date in the header. Ownership and new-patients restate what each practice publishes, and “Not published” means the site says nothing either way. Hours are as published, with evening and Saturday times called out because they are what most people are looking for.

Practice	Dentists, as named on their own site	NJ dental license, checked Nov 2026	Ownership	New patients	Evening or Saturday hours, as published
Aesthetic Dental Excellence, Little Egg Harbor	Dr. Vidhi Trivedi	Active	Not published	New patients page	Wednesday to 7 PM; Saturday Closed
Aspen Dental – Manahawkin, Stafford Township	Dr. Shreyas Rana; Dr. Samuel Kim; Dr. Nicora Long	Active	Part of Aspen Dental	Online booking	Sat Closed
DeMarco Family Dental, Tuckerton	Dr. William DeMarco DMD; Dr. Matthew Brown DMD	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Monday and Thursday to 7:00 PM; Saturday Closed
Dental Arts Group – Manahawkin, Stafford Township	Dr. Gregory Strait; Dr. Viktoriya Halkina	Active	Part of Dental Arts Group	Online booking	Mon to 6 PM; Fri 6 AM to 3 PM; Saturday Closed
Federici Dental, Stafford Township	David E. Federici, DMD; Dr. Maggie Eason	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Tuesday to 7 PM; Saturday Closed
Gentle Cosmetic & Laser Dentistry, Stafford Township	Dr. Karin A. Miller DMD	Active	Not published	Not published	Tuesday to 7 PM; Saturday Closed
Manahawkin Dental Associates, Stafford Township	Dr. Jeffrey Hall	Active	Part of The Smilist	Online booking	Monday and Thursday to 7pm; Saturday: CLOSED
Ocean Family Dental — West Creek, Stafford Township	Dr. Harry Gilbert; Dr. Sean Martin; Dr. Marc Dinapoli; Dr. Matt Navilio; Dr. Jacquelyn Marano	Active	Not published	New patient forms	MONDAY and WEDNESDAY to 7:00PM; SATURDAY: 8:00AM – 12:00PM
Oceanside Dental, Stafford Township	David Gamache, DDS	Active	Part of Park Dental	Request an appointment	Saturday Closed
Seaview Dental at Stafford, Stafford Township	Ira Port DMD; Austin Port DMD	Active	Part of Seaview Dental	Online booking	Mon, Wed to 6:00pm; Saturday Closed
Smiles By Dr. Santos, Stafford Township	Dr. Paul Santos	Active	Not published	Not published	Sat 08:00 am – 01:00 pm
Team Family Dental, Stafford Township	Dr. Edward Burg; Dr. Christopher Lautato	Active	Not published	Not published	Monday to 7pm, Tuesday to 6pm; Saturday Closed
Tuckerton Dental Implant Center, Little Egg Harbor	Dr. Ronald P. Petrosky, DDS, MAGD, DICOI, DIAMDI; Dr. Gail Patricia Petrosky, FAGD, FICOI	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	MON – THUR to 6:30pm; SAT: 7am–1pm

Checked against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Dentistry licensee search.

License statuses were read from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs license verification register on November 9, 2026, by searching each name as a person under the profession Dentistry and the license type Dentist. Practice details were verified against each practice’s own website in November 2026. Where the table reads “Not found by us,” the practice has no website we could find; that is a limit of our check, not a statement about the practice.

The Practices

Aesthetic Dental Excellence, Little Egg Harbor

240 Mathistown Road, 2nd floor, Suite 214, Little Egg Harbor NJ 08087
(609) 296-1234
The register showed Dr. Vidhi Trivedi as Active on November 9, 2026.

Aspen Dental – Manahawkin, Stafford Township

451 Martin Truex Jr Blvd 3 and 4, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
(609) 994-5411
The register showed Dr. Shreyas Rana, Dr. Samuel Kim, Dr. Nicora Long as Active on November 9, 2026.

DeMarco Family Dental, Tuckerton

345 East Main St, Suite 100, Tuckerton, NJ 08087
609-434-3862
The register showed Dr. William DeMarco DMD, Dr. Matthew Brown DMD as Active on November 9, 2026.

Dental Arts Group – Manahawkin, Stafford Township

1322 NJ-72 Ste 1, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
(609) 739-8975
The register showed Dr. Gregory Strait, Dr. Viktoriya Halkina as Active on November 9, 2026.

Federici Dental, Stafford Township

1301 NJ-72 Ste 230, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
(609) 726-5112
The register showed David E. Federici, DMD, Dr. Maggie Eason as Active on November 9, 2026.

Gentle Cosmetic & Laser Dentistry, Stafford Township

169 N. Main St., Manahawkin NJ 08050
(609) 597-6990
The register showed Dr. Karin A. Miller DMD as Active on November 9, 2026.

Manahawkin Dental Associates, Stafford Township

588 E Bay Ave #5, Stafford Township, NJ 08050
(609) 597-3500
The register showed Dr. Jeffrey Hall as Active on November 9, 2026.

Ocean Family Dental — West Creek, Stafford Township

524 S Main St, West Creek, NJ 08092
(609) 597-9290
The register showed Dr. Harry Gilbert, Dr. Sean Martin, Dr. Marc Dinapoli, Dr. Matt Navilio, Dr. Jacquelyn Marano as Active on November 9, 2026.

Oceanside Dental, Stafford Township

602 Route 72, Manahawkin, New Jersey 08050
(609) 597-1123
The register showed David Gamache, DDS as Active on November 9, 2026.

Seaview Dental at Stafford, Stafford Township

1155 NJ-72, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
609-978-7770
The register showed Ira Port DMD, Austin Port DMD as Active on November 9, 2026.

Smiles By Dr. Santos, Stafford Township

703 Mill Creek Rd, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
609-978-8466
The register showed Dr. Paul Santos as Active on November 9, 2026.

Team Family Dental, Stafford Township

853 Mill Creek Rd, Manahawkin, NJ 08050
609-978-7440
The register showed Dr. Edward Burg, Dr. Christopher Lautato as Active on November 9, 2026.

Tuckerton Dental Implant Center, Little Egg Harbor

210 Great Bay Blvd., Tuckerton, NJ 08087
(609) 296-1007
The register showed Dr. Ronald P. Petrosky, DDS, MAGD, DICOI, DIAMDI, Dr. Gail Patricia Petrosky, FAGD, FICOI as Active on November 9, 2026.

Common Questions

How do I check a dentist’s license in Manahawkin – Stafford, NJ?

Go to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs license verification site, choose the person search rather than the business search, set the profession to Dentistry and the license type to Dentist, and enter the last name. The result shows the name, the license number, and the current status. The city shown is the licensee’s address of record, which is often a home address, so do not read it as the office.

What does Inactive, Retired or Expired mean on the New Jersey register?

They are statuses the register records against a license: Inactive and Retired are elected by the licensee and recorded by the board, and Expired means the renewal date has passed. This guide prints what the register showed on the date at the top of the table, next to the name the practice publishes, and makes no claim about why.

Does "Part of a group" mean a practice in Manahawkin – Stafford, NJ is worse, or better?

Neither. It means the practice’s own website, or the group’s own list of locations, says the practice belongs to a larger organisation. Some readers want to know that before they book, which is why the column exists. The guide records the fact and makes no judgment about it.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Practices appear here because they meet the criteria described above — a general dental practice with an office in Stafford Township, Tuckerton or Little Egg Harbor and at least one named dentist whose New Jersey license the state register showed as Active. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No practice can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Practices are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each practice’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register in November 2026.

Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Nothing on this page is medical advice. Every treatment described here carries risks that depend on your own health and history, and the person to discuss them with is a licensed provider who has examined you.

Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Stafford Township, Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor, in Ocean County. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

How We Selected These Practices

A practice appears here if it meets three tests. It is a general dental practice, according to its own website. It has an office you can walk into in Stafford Township, Tuckerton or Little Egg Harbor, stated on its own website or on the business profile it maintains on Google. And at least one dentist it names holds a New Jersey dental license that the state register showed as Active on November 9, 2026.

That is deliberately a low bar, and it admits nearly everyone. Specialists — orthodontists, periodontists, endodontists, prosthodontists, oral surgeons and pediatric dentists — are not on this list, because each of those is its own category with its own guide.

Thirteen practices are listed here, alphabetically. If any of that has changed, the correction address at the bottom of this page is for exactly that.

What This Guide Cannot Tell You

Two things, and they are worth stating plainly. The state register tells us that a person holds a New Jersey dental license and what its status was on the day we looked. It does not tell us where that person practises, how many days a week they are in a given office, or whether they are the dentist you will actually see. For that, the practice’s own website is the source, and the table shows what each one publishes.

The second limit is the new-patients column. It records how each practice says a new patient starts — an online booking system, a set of new-patient forms, or an appointment request form — and nothing else. The column does not say whether the answer will be yes.

What the Register Statuses Mean

Every dentist named in the table showed as Active on the register. A license marked Inactive or Retired is a status the licensee can elect and the board records; a license marked Expired has passed its renewal date. None of those statuses says anything about the practice as a whole, and none of them means a person is practising without a license — it is a reason to ask which dentist you will see. This guide prints what the register showed on the date at the top of the table, and nothing more.

A Note on Reading the Table

Names are printed exactly as each practice writes them, which is why some carry a degree and some do not. Where the register shows a status other than Active against a name, the license cell says which name and what it showed, dated, and nothing else.

Ownership is a fact, not a grade. Independently owned means the practice says so on its own site or names its owner-dentist; Part of a group means the practice’s own site, or the group’s own location list, says so. Not published means the site says nothing either way — and most sites say nothing either way, which is why that value is the most common one in the column. A practice named after its dentist, or organised as a P.A., is not thereby “independently owned” in this table; the practice has to say it.

Something Out of Date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a dentist who has joined or left a practice, a license status, an address, a booking method, or whether a practice has closed — tell us and we will check it. Practices listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a practice whose dentist we could not find on the register, or whose site we could not read, is exactly the kind of correction we want.

And if you run a general dental practice with an office in Stafford Township, Tuckerton or Little Egg Harbor that should be on this list, write to us. The criteria are the same for everyone: a general dental practice, an office you can walk into in one of these towns stated on your own website or Google profile, and at least one named dentist whose New Jersey license shows as Active. If you meet them, you go on.

Something out of date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a credential, who is at the practice, insurance participation, or whether they are taking new patients — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly.

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