Prosthodontists in Somerset County, NJ
If you have reached the point of searching for a prosthodontist, there is a decent chance the dental problem is no longer simple.
Maybe you are missing teeth.
Maybe implants are being discussed.
Maybe several old crowns or bridges are failing.
Maybe you have worn teeth, fractured teeth or a bite that feels increasingly wrong.
Maybe you have dentures and want to know whether there is a better option.
Maybe somebody handed you a treatment plan with so many line items that you would like another person to explain what the actual strategy is.
Very fair.
A prosthodontist is a dental specialist with advanced training focused on restoring and replacing teeth.
That can include crowns, bridges, dentures, implants, complex esthetic dentistry and full-mouth rehabilitation.
If you are searching for a prosthodontist in Somerset County, the useful distinction is not simply “specialist versus general dentist.”
Many excellent general dentists provide restorative and implant dentistry.
The prosthodontist becomes especially relevant when the case is complex enough that treatment planning itself is a major part of the job.
When should you consider a prosthodontist?
There is no universal threshold.
One crown usually does not require a specialist.
One missing tooth may not either.
The case becomes more prosthodontic when several things have to work together.
Multiple missing teeth.
Multiple implants.
Extensive wear.
A full arch of teeth.
Complex dentures.
Several failing restorations.
A major cosmetic change involving many teeth.
A bite that needs to be reconstructed.
A history of treatment that has not held up well.
This is exactly the kind of situation where I would want somebody to step back and ask, “What are we trying to accomplish overall?”
For implants, start with the final tooth
People often think about implants from the surgical side first.
Where does the implant go?
Can I get one?
How long does it heal?
All important.
A prosthodontic approach also asks where the final tooth needs to be, how it should meet the opposing teeth and what the overall result should look like.
That can affect how implants are planned.
If more than one specialist is involved, ask how they coordinate.
Who determines the implant position?
Who performs the surgery?
Who designs the final restoration?
Who is responsible for long-term maintenance?
This is one of those cases where everybody knowing the final destination before anyone starts driving seems like a solid idea.
If several teeth need crowns
Ask why.
That may sound obvious.
If several teeth have old restorations and simply need replacement, fine.
If they are cracking or wearing because of a bite issue, grinding or another underlying problem, that matters too.
I would want to know what keeps the new dentistry from ending up in the same condition as the old dentistry.
If the treatment changes many teeth at once, ask whether temporary restorations are used so you can evaluate the bite and appearance before the final work is made.
Dentures can be a specialty case too
If you are missing many teeth or all teeth, prosthodontists have advanced training in removable and implant-supported prosthetic options.
That does not mean the most expensive option is automatically the best one.
Ask about function.
Stability.
Hygiene.
Repairs.
Long-term maintenance.
How much treatment is involved.
What the realistic improvement is compared with what you have now.
If you already have dentures that are uncomfortable or unstable, bring them.
They are part of the history.
Cosmetic and restorative dentistry overlap
This is one of the places patients get confused.
Veneers, crowns, implants and smile reconstruction can all have a cosmetic component.
They also need to function.
If you are changing several teeth for esthetic reasons, ask how tooth preparation, bite, material choice and long-term maintenance are being considered.
The prettiest photograph is not the whole outcome.
You need to live with the dentistry.
Big treatment plan? Ask for the big picture.
For a full-mouth or multi-stage case, I would want the plan broken down.
What is urgent?
What is optional?
What happens first?
What can be staged?
How long will the full process take?
Will specialists be involved?
What will you wear while treatment is in progress?
What happens if a tooth you hoped to keep cannot be saved?
What does maintenance look like once treatment is complete?
And yes, what does each stage cost?
You are allowed to understand the financial plan as well as the dental plan.
The Garden State Circle guide below identifies prosthodontists in Somerset County under the published criteria and compares the information their practices make available.
It is not a ranking.
Use it if you are searching for prosthodontists Somerset County NJ, dental implant specialist Somerset County, prosthodontist Bridgewater, prosthodontist Somerville, full-mouth reconstruction, complex restorative dentistry, denture specialist, implant dentures, crowns and bridges, missing teeth replacement or prosthodontist second opinion.
For a case this big, I would not want somebody simply fixing the next tooth.
I would want to know what the mouth is supposed to look and function like when the entire project is finished.
That is the plan I am hiring.
We did the homework here.
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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: Prosthodontists in Somerset County, NJ
How We Selected These Prosthodontists
This guide covers Somerset County.
A practice is on this page when it has a prosthodontics office in Somerset County and at least one named dentist whose New Jersey dental license the state register showed as Active on September 24, 2026, and who holds a prosthodontics specialty permit on that register at that office’s town, primary or branch, or a legacy specialty permit that the practice’s own words tie to prosthodontics. That is a test, not a judgment. Practices are listed alphabetically.
Where fewer than six practices in this county met the criteria, the nearest practices that met the same criteria are listed in a second table, each with the town it is based in.
About This Guide
This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Practices appear here because they meet the criteria described above — a prosthodontics office in the county named above and at least one named dentist with an Active New Jersey dental license and a prosthodontics specialty permit. 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 Somerset County. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.
The Prosthodontists, Compared
| Practice and town | Specialist(s) named, and the permit as the register prints it, checked Sept 24, 2026 | Residency (as published) | Implants (as published) | New patients | Record checked (Sept 24, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Family Dental Group Raritan | Dr. Paul Sohn — Dentist license Active · Prosthodontics Spec Br Permit 07468-01 Active (primary 07468 Active, Hawthorne) | Not published | “Dental Implants”; “Full-Mouth Restoration” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
| David A. Lipani, DMD, LLC Bridgewater | David A. Lipani, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “Manhattan VA Medical Center for an additional 4 years, earning a certificate in General Practice and Prosthodontics” | “Implant Dentistry”; “Dental Implants” | Not published | Sept 24, 2026 |
Checked against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Dentistry licensee search.
Permit status is what the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register showed on September 24, 2026, looked up by name. Record checked names the date we last checked that practice’s record ourselves.
Nearby options
| Practice and town | Specialist(s) named, and the permit as the register prints it, checked Sept 24, 2026 | Residency (as published) | Implants (as published) | New patients | Record checked (Sept 24, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine A. Golis DDS Based in Chester | Christine A. Golis, DDS — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “post-doctorate program in the specialty of Prosthodontics at Montefiore Medical Center”; “hospital residency program at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City” | “Dental Implants” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
| Chatham Prosthodontics Based in Chatham | Mauricio Lavie, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “postgraduate specialty in Prosthodontics” | “We specialize in implant placement.” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
| Hunterdon Prosthodontics Based in Flemington | Paul S Pincofski, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | Not published | “Dental implants” | Not published | Sept 24, 2026 |
| Advanced Dental of Denville Based in Denville | Dr. Tanya Wong — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “completed her residency at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1995”; “She obtained her prosthodontic specialty degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.” | “Dental Implants” | Not published | Sept 24, 2026 |
The Practices
Circle Family Dental Group, Raritan
Raritan, NJ 08869
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Dr. Paul Sohn — Dentist license Active · Prosthodontics Spec Br Permit 07468-01 Active (primary 07468 Active, Hawthorne).
On the practice’s own site: “Harvard-Trained Prosthodontist”.
A multi-dentist practice; only Dr. Sohn is on this guide. The practice also names Hosanna Yoh and Robert J. Braun. Dr. Sohn also practices at Sol Dental, Hawthorne.
David A. Lipani, DMD, LLC, Bridgewater
720 Route 202-206 North, Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: David A. Lipani, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “earning a certificate in General Practice and Prosthodontics”; the site’s “What is a Prosthodontist?” page.
Nearby options
Christine A. Golis DDS, Chester
32 Collis Lane, Chester, NJ 07930
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Christine A. Golis, DDS — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “Christine A. Golis DDS, Prosthodontist – Chester, New Jersey” (contact page).
Chatham Prosthodontics, Chatham
33 Main Street, Suite 103, Chatham, NJ 07928
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Mauricio Lavie, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: the practice name “Chatham Prosthodontics”.
Hunterdon Prosthodontics, Flemington
59 Reading Road, Flemington, NJ 08822
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Paul S Pincofski, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “My practice is limited to the specialty of Prosthodontics”.
Advanced Dental of Denville, Denville
490 E Main St Ste 103, Denville, NJ 07834
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Dr. Tanya Wong — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “She obtained her prosthodontic specialty degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.”.
The site also describes general, cosmetic and restorative care.
Common Questions
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.
Verified
Verified means we checked identity, licence and published details - not service quality or results.Every detail on this page was checked on September 24, 2026 against each practice’s own website and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register.
Additional Resources
The same guide for other markets
- Prosthodontists in Morris County, NJ
- Prosthodontists in Hunterdon County, NJ
- Prosthodontists in Monmouth County, NJ
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, insurance participation, 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.
admin@gardenstatecircle.com
This is not a ranking.