Dentists in Denville and Mountain Lakes, NJ

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Finding a Dentist in New Jersey: What I’d Actually Want to Know Before I Book

By Tiffany Slowinski

Finding a new dentist should not be this annoying.

You ask a friend. You Google. You end up staring at 17 practices that all have somewhere between 4.7 and 5 stars, beautiful photos of extremely white teeth and websites promising some version of “gentle, comprehensive care.”

Great. Which one am I actually supposed to call?

For something this personal, I want more than a star rating. I want to know who I am seeing, whether I can get an appointment without rearranging my entire life and whether the dentist is going to explain what is happening before handing me a treatment plan that costs more than my first car.

I also want to like them.

That matters.

A dentist is one of those people you hopefully stay with for years. I do not want to reintroduce myself every six months or wonder whether I am ever going to see the same person twice. If I choose a practice because I read about a specific dentist, I want to know if that is actually the person I am going to see.

Then there is the very practical stuff.

Can I get an appointment when I need one? Are there early morning, evening or Saturday appointments? What happens if something hurts? Can I book online, or am I entering a three-day game of phone tag?

A gorgeous office is not especially useful to me if I cannot get there without canceling half my workday.

I also want to know what happens if I need more than a cleaning.

Some practices handle a wide range of treatment in-house. Others refer out for root canals, oral surgery, implants, orthodontics or more complicated cases. Neither is automatically better. I just want to know before I need something.

And yes, I care about how my teeth look too.

I can want healthy teeth and still be interested in whitening, straightening something that has bothered me for years or fixing a chipped tooth I stare at in every photo. If cosmetic dentistry matters to you, ask what the dentist actually does regularly instead of assuming every office that uses the phrase “cosmetic dentistry” offers the same thing.

The biggest thing for me is communication.

I do not need a dental degree. I do need to understand what you see, what you recommend, why you recommend it and what happens if I do nothing right now.

If there are multiple options, tell me. If one costs significantly more, tell me why. If something can wait six months, I want to know that too.

Trust gets a lot harder when you are lying backward under a bright light while someone throws around words you do not understand and you are nodding because there are four instruments in your mouth.

I want a dentist who explains things like a normal person.

I would also pay attention to treatment philosophy.

If a dentist recommends something significant, I want to understand what needs attention now and what can be watched. I want to know my options. For something expensive or irreversible, I am completely comfortable asking questions or getting another opinion.

That is not being difficult.

Those are my teeth.

Then there is the money.

Dental insurance is confusing enough. Before significant treatment, I want the office to explain what they expect it to cost, what they expect insurance to cover and what I am responsible for. If the practice is out of network, tell me. If payment plans exist, tell me. If there are different treatment options at different price points, I want to know that too.

Nobody enjoys talking about money while wearing a paper bib.

Talk about it anyway.

And if you hate going to the dentist, you are hardly alone.

Some people had a terrible experience years ago. Some hate needles. Some have sensitive teeth. Some are embarrassed because it has been way too long since their last cleaning.

A perfectly fair question is: How do you handle nervous patients?

Pay attention to the answer.

You are not looking for someone to promise that nothing will ever be uncomfortable. You are looking for an office that listens when you tell them what makes you anxious and does not make you feel ridiculous for saying it.

At the end of the day, you can research a dentist for three hours online and still learn more in 20 minutes sitting in the chair.

How does the staff treat you? Does the dentist listen before talking? Do you feel rushed? Are your questions welcomed or tolerated? Do you leave understanding what happened and what comes next?

That is the stuff that makes you stay.

It is also why we built these guides.

Garden State Circle checks the public information available on each practice, including active dental licenses, who the practice actually names as its dentists, whether it appears to be independently owned or part of a larger group when that information is published, how it handles new patients and whether it offers evening or weekend hours.

We are not telling you which dentist is “the best.”

I do not think a spreadsheet can tell you that.

The dentist I love may not be the dentist you love. You may care deeply about Saturday appointments. I may care about seeing the same person every time. Someone else may want a practice that can handle the whole family or offers a specific service.

What we can do is make it much easier to compare them.

Because choosing a dentist should start with better information than whoever happened to show up first on Google.

You do not need to find the fanciest dentist.

You need to find the dentist you will actually go back to.

The Guide: Dentists in Denville and Mountain Lakes, NJ

How We Selected These Dentists

Every practice in the table has an office you can walk into in Mountain Lakes · Denville · Boonton Township, and at least one dentist whose New Jersey dental license the state register showed as Active in September 2026. That is a test, not a judgment. Practices are listed alphabetically.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Practices appear here because they meet the criteria described above — an office in Mountain Lakes · Denville · Boonton Township, and at least one dentist with an Active New Jersey dental license. 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 the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register in September 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. Where a row carries a verification date, that is when we last checked that business’s record ourselves. A row without one has not been checked recently — that is a fact about our work, not about the business. 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 Mountain Lakes · Denville · Boonton Township. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

The Dentists, Compared

Practice	Dentist(s), as named on their own site	NJ license	Ownership	New patients	Evening or Saturday hours (as published)	Record checked
Advanced Dental of Denville	Tanya Wong	22DI01942200 · Active · checked Sept 16, 2026	Not published	Request an appointment	Wednesday to 6 pm; alternate Saturdays 9 am to 1 pm	September 2026
Denville Dental Studio	Natalia Artimova	22DI02303300 · Active · checked Sept 16, 2026	Not published	Request an appointment	Tuesday to 7:30 pm, Wednesday to 7 pm; no Saturday	September 2026
Denville Implant and Cosmetic Dentistry Center	Hal H. Kimowitz	22DI01046400 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	New patient forms	Monday and Wednesday to 7 pm; no Saturday	September 2026
Dr. Edward Shluper, DDS	Edward Shluper	22DI01949900 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Independently owned	New patient forms	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to 6 pm; no Saturday	September 2026
Dr. Michael Cahill, General & Cosmetic Dentistry	Michael Cahill	22DI01819500 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Independently owned	Not published	Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to 7 pm; Saturday 9 am to 2 pm	September 2026
Maxine Vu Dental	Maxine Vu	22DI02104500 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Independently owned	Request an appointment	No weekday evening; Saturday 8 am to 1 pm	September 2026
Smile Center of Denville	Niraj Patel	22DI02582301 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	Request an appointment	Not published	September 2026

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

License status is what the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register showed in September 2026, looked up by name. Record checked names the month we last checked that practice’s record ourselves.

The Practices

Advanced Dental of Denville, Denville

490 E Main St Ste 103, Denville, NJ 07834

Tanya Wong holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of 973-586-4444. The practice’s website describes Dr. Wong as a prosthodontic specialist and says the practice provides general, cosmetic and restorative dental care. The practice’s website has an appointment request form.

Denville Dental Studio, Denville

3125 Route 10E Suite 1B, Denville, NJ 07834

Natalia Artimova holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of 973-328-7199. The practice’s website has an appointment request form.

Denville Implant and Cosmetic Dentistry Center, Denville

75 Bloomfield Ave #205, Denville, NJ 07834

Hal H. Kimowitz holds an Active New Jersey dental license. Adam Kimowitz is also named on the practice’s website. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of 973-627-3363 for current patients. The practice’s website publishes new patient forms.

Dr. Edward Shluper, DDS, Mountain Lakes

115 US Hgwy 46, Mountain Lakes Business Park Building E33, Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046

Edward Shluper holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of (973) 743-5432. The practice’s website says: “At the end of 2017, Dr. Shluper opened up a state of the art office in Mountain Lakes, NJ where he has been practicing since.” The website shows one office. The practice’s website publishes new patient forms. The website also lists Sunday hours, 9 am to 1 pm.

Dr. Michael Cahill, General & Cosmetic Dentistry, Denville

56 Diamond Spring Rd., Denville, NJ 07834

Michael Cahill holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The license is on file under the name Michael T. Cahill. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of 973-627-6060. The practice’s website says: “Dr. Cahill opened his practice in the quaint downtown area of Denville, NJ in 1996.” The website shows one office. The practice’s website has no online booking, no new patient forms and no appointment request form. It says “Accepting New Patients” and gives a phone number and an email address.

Maxine Vu Dental, Denville

Schoolhouse Plaza, 124 East Main Street, Suite 108, Denville, NJ 07834

Maxine Vu holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The license is on file under the name Maxine P. Vu. The practice’s own website publishes the practice address above and a phone number of (973) 625-3222. The practice’s website says: “She worked as an associate in private practice in Morris County after completing her residency and established her own office in 2006 in Denville, NJ.” The website shows one office. The practice’s website has an appointment request form.

Smile Center of Denville, Denville

9 Mount Pleasant TPKE, STE 203, Denville, NJ 07834

Niraj Patel holds an Active New Jersey dental license. Rajal J. Patel is also named on the practice’s website. The practice’s website is Yogi Dental Center’s and is written for its office in Orange, NJ; it lists Smile Center of Denville as a second office at this address. The website prints the phone number 973-673-1311 beside the Orange office’s address; it prints no number as the Denville office’s. The website does not say which office Dr. Niraj Patel works at. The practice’s website has an appointment request form.

Listed in the Market, Not Checked the Same Way

Aesthetic Family Dentistry, 35 West Main St, Suite 208, Denville, NJ 07834. We have not yet taken a license reading for the dentists this practice’s website names.

Green Leaf Dentistry, 3155 Rt 10 East, Suite 201, Denville, NJ 07834. We have not yet taken a license reading for the dentists this practice’s website names.

Mountain Lakes Premier Dental, 420 Boulevard, Suite 102, Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046. We have not yet taken a license reading for the dentists this practice’s website names.

Common Questions

Is every dentist here accepting new patients?

Where the New patients column reads “Not published,” the practice’s website has no online booking, no new patient forms and no appointment request form. That is a fact about what each practice’s website says, not a claim that they are closed to new patients — call and ask.

How do I check a license myself?

The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs publishes a licensee search under Dentistry. Search by the dentist’s last name. The record shows the license number, the status and the town on file.

Are specialist practices listed here?

No. This guide covers general dentists. NJ Face, Mountain Lakes (oral and maxillofacial surgery), is not in the table.

Additional Resources

More guides to Denville and Mountain Lakes

The same guide for other markets

NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license verification

Something out of date?

If anything here is wrong or has changed — a credential, who is at the practice, or whether they are taking new patients — tell us and we will check it. Corrections are free, for every practice on this page. A practice that is not listed here and meets the criteria described at the top of this guide can write to the same address.

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