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Choosing an Oral Surgeon in New Jersey: What I’d Want to Know Before I Book

By Tiffany Slowinski

Nobody goes looking for an oral surgeon because they are having a particularly fun week.

Usually your dentist tells you that you need one.

Maybe your teenager needs wisdom teeth out. Maybe you need an implant. Maybe there is a tooth that has become a much bigger problem than you were hoping it would be.

Either way, I am probably already a little nervous before I ever start Googling.

And if it is one of my kids, multiply that by about 100.

So when I am choosing an oral surgeon, I am not looking for the fanciest office or the person with the most dramatic before-and-after photos.

I want to know who is actually doing the procedure, what their training is, how they handle anesthesia, what recovery is really going to look like and who I call if something does not seem right afterward.

That is the information I care about.

Who is actually doing the surgery?

This is the first thing I would want to know.

Some oral surgery practices have one surgeon. Others have several doctors working across multiple offices.

If I am reading about a specific surgeon, I want to know whether that is actually the person who will be treating me or my child.

I also want to know what credentials the practice publishes and what the state record shows.

New Jersey’s public dental licensing record can show a dentist license and, when applicable, specialty and anesthesia permits. Some practices also publish board certification through the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Those are different pieces of information.

I am not expecting a parent to decode every credential on the internet.

That is exactly why we checked them.

What kind of anesthesia or sedation are we talking about?

This would be a very big question for me.

Especially if you are talking about my child.

Oral and maxillofacial surgeons receive hospital-based surgical training after dental school, including anesthesia training, and different procedures may involve anything from local anesthesia to different levels of sedation or general anesthesia.

I do not need to decide which one is right.

I do want the surgeon to explain what they recommend for this particular procedure and why.

What will my child experience?

Will they be awake?

How long will the anesthesia last?

What should we expect when they wake up?

Do they need to stop eating or drinking beforehand?

What medications do we need to discuss?

Who needs to drive them home?

These are not stupid questions.

They are exactly the questions I am asking.

One thing that stood out while we researched this guide is how little some practices publish about sedation on their websites.

So if anesthesia matters to you, ask.

The state record can help show who holds an anesthesia permit. The actual practice needs to tell you what it offers and what is being recommended for you.

If this is my kid’s wisdom teeth, what am I actually signing up for?

I think this is where the mom brain kicks in.

I want to know why they need to come out.

Do all four need to be removed?

Is there a reason to do it now?

What does the surgeon see on the X-ray?

How complicated does this look?

What is a normal recovery for this particular case?

I am not looking for a promise that everything will be easy.

I am looking for someone who can tell me what they expect and what would make this case different.

Then give me the practical version.

How many days should I realistically keep my kid home?

When can they go back to school?

When can they go back to sports?

What should they eat?

What should we have in the house before surgery?

What pain-control plan should we expect?

What symptoms are normal and what means I should call you?

That is the information I am going to remember.

If I need an implant, I have a different set of questions

Dental implants can turn into a much bigger conversation than I expected.

Sometimes there is an extraction first.

Sometimes bone grafting is part of the plan.

There can be a healing period before the final tooth is restored.

And the oral surgeon may be handling one part of the process while your general dentist handles another.

I would want someone to walk me through the whole sequence before we start.

Who does what?

How many appointments are involved?

How long is the process likely to take?

Will I leave with a temporary tooth?

Does the surgeon place the implant and then send me back to my dentist for the final crown?

What happens if bone grafting is needed?

I do not want to discover step four while I am sitting in the chair after step three.

Show me the roadmap.

What is this going to cost and which insurance are we even talking about?

This is another fun part.

Oral surgery can involve dental insurance, medical insurance or sometimes both depending on the procedure and the plan.

That means the sentence “we take your insurance” does not tell me nearly enough.

Before surgery, I want an estimate.

What does the surgeon charge?

What does the anesthesia cost?

Are there separate charges for imaging, grafting or anything else being discussed?

What is expected to be covered?

Is anything subject to a deductible?

Does the office submit to both medical and dental insurance when appropriate?

I understand that an office cannot guarantee what an insurance company will pay.

I do expect them to explain the financial side well enough that I am not blindsided afterward.

What does recovery really look like?

I do not want the brochure answer.

I want the answer you would give your sister.

How swollen am I likely to be?

When does swelling usually peak?

How uncomfortable is this expected to be?

How long until I can eat normally?

When can I exercise?

When can my teenager go back to practice?

What is normal bleeding?

What happens if pain gets worse instead of better?

And who answers the phone if I am worried at 8 p.m.?

Recovery is part of the procedure.

I want to know what support looks like after I leave the office, not just while I am in it.

Pay attention to how the surgeon talks to you

This may be one of the biggest things for me.

Surgery is already intimidating enough.

I want a surgeon who can explain what is happening without making me feel ridiculous for asking questions.

If this is my child, I want them spoken to too.

I want someone to tell us what they are doing, what they expect and what the alternatives are when there actually are alternatives.

I want enough information to make a decision without feeling like I need to go to dental school first.

That matters as much to me as the waiting room.

Probably more.

So how do you compare oral surgeons?

That is why Garden State Circle built this guide differently.

For oral surgeons serving Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook, we did not just pull the practices that appear first in search.

We looked at the surgeons the practices publish, then checked New Jersey’s public dentistry licensing register for the dentist license and any specialty or anesthesia permits we could find under each surgeon’s name.

We also show board certification when the practice publishes it, how far the office is from Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook and how the practice says new patients can get started.

When we could not find something, we say that.

That does not mean a surgeon does not have it.

It means we are not going to fill in the blank ourselves.

That distinction matters.

This is also not a ranking.

The closest surgeon may be the right one for you.

The surgeon your dentist recommends may be the right one.

You may care most about board certification, anesthesia options, a particular procedure, appointment access or whether the surgeon made your nervous 17-year-old feel completely at ease.

Those are personal decisions.

What we can do is give you better information before you make them.

Because if someone is operating on me or one of my kids, “they had good Google reviews” is not enough homework for me.

I want to know who they are, what the public record shows and whether I trust them when they explain what happens next.

The Guide: Oral Surgeons Serving Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook, NJ

How We Selected These Practices

This guide covers Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook.

Bridgewater has no oral surgery practice with the town in its name. The nearest offices sit in Somerville, Branchburg and Bedminster, and the drive-time line reaches Warren, Basking Ridge, Middlesex and South Plainfield.

Where fewer than six practices in these towns met the test, other practices that met the same test are listed in a second table under Nearby options, each with the town it is based in.

About This Guide

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 Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

Oral Surgeons Serving Bridgewater (Martinsville), Branchburg, Raritan and Bound Brook — Compared

Practice	Surgeons	Drive: Bridgewater	NJ licence and permits, checked September 3, 2026	Board certification (as published)	New patients
New Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery	Karl Maloney, DDS	10 min	Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active · Anesthesia permit Active	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Appointment request

Nearby options

Practice	Based in	Surgeons	Drive: Bridgewater	NJ licence and permits, checked September 3, 2026	Board certification (as published)	New patients
Madison Avenue Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates	Bedminster	Steven J. Silverman, DDS, MD	9 min	Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active · Anesthesia permit Active	American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Patient registration
Somerset Oral Surgery and Dental Implants	Somerville	Alan Hecht, DMD · Tyler Jacobs, DDS, MD	10 min	Both: dentist license Active · anesthesia permit Active. Specialty permit — Hecht Active; Jacobs not found by us	Alan Hecht — American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Tyler Jacobs — Not published	Online booking
Oral Surgery Group	Middlesex	Not published for this office	16 min	All six surgeons: dentist license Active · anesthesia permit Active. Specialty permit Active for five; Prabhu — not found by us	Not published for this office	Patient registration
Riverside Oral Surgery	Warren	Not published for this office	19 min	Not published for this office	Not published for this office	Online booking
Ridge Oral Surgery & Dental Implants	Basking Ridge	Prakhar Mehrotra, DDS, MD · Allison DeRenzi, DDS · Tarandeep Singh, DDS	19 min	All three: dentist license Active · anesthesia permit Active. Specialty permit — not found by us	Prakhar Mehrotra — American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Allison DeRenzi — see entry. Tarandeep Singh — Not published	Online booking
Warren Oral Surgery and Dental Implant Center	Warren	Daniel Sullivan, DDS · Sejin Bae, DMD · Camille E. Marquis, DDS, MD · David Mann, DMD · Nikhil Mehandru, DDS · Michael Awadallah, DDS, MD · Odai Abushanab, DMD	20 min	All seven: dentist license Active · anesthesia permit Active (Mann, Abushanab — under their names at other New Jersey addresses). Specialty permit — Sullivan Active; the other six not found by us	American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery — Sullivan, Bae, Marquis, Awadallah, Abushanab. Mann, Mehandru — Not published	Appointment request
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Implant Specialists of Middlesex	South Plainfield	Michael K. Goulston, DMD, MD	30 min	Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active · Anesthesia permit Active	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery · National Dental Board of Anesthesiology	Appointment request

Drive times measured in Google Maps on October 8, 2026, from the centre of each town, fastest route. Practice details verified against each practice’s own website on September 3, 2026. License and permit status is what the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry’s public register showed on September 3, 2026, looked up by name; not found by us is a fact about our search, not about the surgeon. Board certification is printed as each practice states it on its own website; Not published means the website does not state it.

What the State Record Shows

New Jersey licenses dentists through the State Board of Dentistry, and its public register lists, for each person, the dentist license, any specialty permit, and any general anesthesia permit, each with a status. On September 3, 2026, we ran every surgeon named on this page — nineteen people — through that register by name.

Seventeen of the nineteen show an Active dentist license and an Active general anesthesia permit at the town where the practice says they work. The other two, David Mann and Odai Abushanab at Warren Oral Surgery, show Active licenses and Active general anesthesia permits under their names at other New Jersey addresses, and we have not confirmed those records are the same people.

The register also shows an Active oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty permit for Steven J. Silverman, Karl Maloney, Michael K. Goulston and Daniel Sullivan, and for five of the six surgeons of the Oral Surgery Group. Where the register showed no specialty permit under a surgeon’s name, the table says not found by us. That is a fact about our search on one day, not a finding about the surgeon, and it is a question we are putting to each of those practices; the cell changes the day the practice answers or the register does.

That matters because of the one thing almost none of these practices publish. Of the seven, one names the sedation it offers on its website: Madison Avenue Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates describes IV sedation performed in the office. Ridge refers to “several anesthesia and sedation options.” Riverside refers to a “full suite of professional and safe anesthetic services.” Warren lists “Anesthesia & Comfort” as a service. The rest say nothing. So if sedation matters to you, the state register tells you who holds the permit, and the phone call tells you what they actually offer.

The Practices

New Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery

Office: 3322 US-22, Suite 1207-1208, Branchburg

Dr. Karl Maloney, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon with sixteen years in practice, sees patients at the Branchburg office on Route 22 — ten minutes from Bridgewater and thirteen from Somerville — and at a second office in Berkeley Heights.

Nearby options

Madison Avenue Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates

Office: 1 Robertson Drive, Suite 19, Bedminster

Steven J. Silverman, DDS, MD, a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery who has been in private practice for over twenty-seven years by his own account, sees patients at the Robertson Drive office in Bedminster, nine minutes from Bridgewater, as well as in Morristown.

Somerset Oral Surgery and Dental Implants

Office: 50 Division St, Ste 301, Somerville

The Somerville office on Division Street, ten minutes from Bridgewater, is where Alan Hecht, DMD, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and Tyler Jacobs, DDS, MD, see patients; the practice also has an office in Lebanon.

Google lists a Douglas Jacobus, DDS, MD, at this address. The practice’s own website does not name him, so this guide does not either.

Oral Surgery Group

Office: 1275 Bound Brook Rd, Middlesex

The Middlesex office on Bound Brook Road is one of three New Jersey locations staffed from a group of six oral surgeons — Philip Engel, DMD; Richard Stern, DDS; Constantine Simos, DMD; Michael Stern, DMD; Amy Tanchyk, DMD, MD; and Rohan J. Prabhu, DDS — and the practice does not publish which of the six see patients at this address.

Riverside Oral Surgery

Office: 65 Mountain Boulevard Extension, Suite 106, Warren

The Warren office on Mountain Boulevard Extension, open Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 5:00, is one of ten Riverside Oral Surgery locations in New Jersey and New York, staffed from a group of sixteen oral and maxillofacial surgeons; the practice does not publish which of them see patients in Warren.

Ridge Oral Surgery & Dental Implants

Office: 175 Morristown Road, Ste. 103, Basking Ridge

Prakhar Mehrotra, DDS, MD, Allison DeRenzi, DDS, and Tarandeep Singh, DDS, practice at the Morristown Road office in Basking Ridge, nineteen minutes from Bridgewater, where the practice uses 3D dental imaging for surgical planning and takes bookings online.

One cell in this row is deliberately blank. The practice’s website describes Dr. DeRenzi as a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon; the practice’s own office, asked in August 2026, listed only Dr. Mehrotra as board certified. Until the practice confirms one answer in writing, we print neither.

Warren Oral Surgery and Dental Implant Center

Office: 58 Mt. Bethel Road, Suite 301, Warren

Seven oral and maxillofacial surgeons practice at the Mount Bethel Road office in Warren, fifteen minutes from Somerville, and five of them — Daniel Sullivan, Sejin Bae, Camille E. Marquis, Michael Awadallah and Odai Abushanab — are described on the practice’s own site as diplomates of, or board certified by, the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Implant Specialists of Middlesex

Office: 213 Durham Ave, South Plainfield

Michael K. Goulston, DMD, MD, is certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology, and practices at the Durham Avenue office in South Plainfield, eighteen minutes from Somerville.

Listed in the Market, Not Checked the Same Way

Dental Specialists of Bridgewater, 216 Finderne Avenue, Bridgewater, is where Google’s own answer sends a Bridgewater reader for oral surgery. Its website names a periodontist, two endodontists and an orthodontist, and no oral and maxillofacial surgeon, so it does not meet the criteria for this page. Stellar Smiles Bridgewater, also named by Google, is a general dental practice that offers oral surgery procedures; its site names no oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Common Questions

Is there an oral surgeon in Bridgewater?

Not with a Bridgewater address, as far as we could find. The closest offices are New Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery in Branchburg and Madison Avenue Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates in Bedminster, both ten minutes.

Do I need a referral to see an oral surgeon?

No. Most patients arrive because a general dentist sent them, but none of these practices requires a referral to book a consultation.

What does an oral and maxillofacial surgeon do that my dentist doesn’t?

An oral and maxillofacial surgeon completes a hospital-based surgical residency after dental school — four to six years, sometimes alongside a medical degree. In practice that means impacted teeth, difficult extractions, implants where bone has to be built first, jaw surgery, pathology, and the ability to give deeper sedation in the office. A general dentist can place implants and remove teeth. The question is not who is allowed to, it is who does it every day.

What should I ask about sedation?

Ask what they offer — local anaesthetic, nitrous oxide, intravenous sedation, general anaesthesia. Ask who administers it and what credential that person holds. Ask whether it is monitored by someone other than the person operating. The state register, described above, tells you who holds a general anesthesia permit; only one of these seven websites says what is actually offered, so the rest is a phone call.

What will the consultation cost, and is imaging included?

Ask before you book. None of the seven publishes a consultation price, and whether a 3D scan is bundled or billed separately varies between practices.

Do they take my insurance?

None of the seven publishes a list of accepted plans. Call with your plan name and your specific procedure — coverage for oral surgery often splits between medical and dental, and the answer differs by procedure rather than by practice.

Are they taking new patients?

All seven market for them. All seven publish an online booking, appointment-request or registration path. None publishes a statement about current availability, so if you have a procedure and a timeline, ask when you call.

How far will I actually have to drive?

The table gives measured drive times from the centre of Bridgewater. Bedminster is nine minutes; Somerville and Branchburg are ten. Warren and Basking Ridge are nineteen to twenty; South Plainfield, at thirty, is the far edge of this guide.

How We Checked This

Surgeon names, credentials, addresses and booking paths were taken from each practice’s own website on September 3, 2026. Board certifications are stated exactly as each practice states them. Every named surgeon was looked up by name on the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry’s public license register the same day. Drive times were measured in Google Maps on September 3, 2026, from the centre of each town.

Where a practice does not publish something, this guide says so rather than guessing.

Practice details verified against each practice’s own website and the New Jersey license register on September 3, 2026. Drive times measured September 3, 2026.

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Something Wrong, or Something We Should Know?

This guide is maintained, and readers are how it stays current.

If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, a credential, an address, hours, whether a practice is taking new patients — tell us and we will check it against the practice’s own records.

And if there is something else we should know about oral surgery in these towns, tell us that too. You can attach a photo or a screenshot. Please don’t include personal or medical information.

Practices listed here are welcome to write in directly. A practice that is not listed and believes it meets the criteria above — an office within twenty-five minutes of Bridgewater, and a named oral and maxillofacial surgeon on its own website — can write in too, and the row is added when it checks out.

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