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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 Long Branch and Red Bank, 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 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 in Red Bank, NJ

How We Selected These Practices

This guide covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust).

Four oral surgery offices sit inside these towns: one on Broad Street in Red Bank; one on Oak Hill Road, which carries a Red Bank mailing address but stands in Middletown Township, six minutes from the centre of Red Bank; and two more in Middletown Township, in Lincroft and Middletown. The nearby options table adds Tinton Falls and Ocean Township.

About This Guide

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Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Shrewsbury Borough, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Middletown Township (Lincroft, Navesink, Locust). Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

Oral Surgeons in Red Bank — Compared

Practice	Surgeons	NJ licence and permits, checked September 3, 2026	Board certification (as published)	New patients
Alliance Oral Surgery	John Frattellone, DMD · Michael DiPietro, DMD	Both: dentist license Active. Anesthesia permit — not found by us. Specialty permit — not found by us	Michael DiPietro — American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. John Frattellone — Not published	Appointment request
Lincroft Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	John Frattellone, DMD	Dentist license Active · Anesthesia permit — not found by us · Specialty permit — not found by us	Not published	Contact form
Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence	Kayvon Haghighi, DDS, MD	Dentist license Active · Anesthesia permit Active · Specialty permit — not found by us	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Phone
Middletown Oral Surgery Associates	Edward Kozlovsky, DMD · Joseph F. Miele, DDS · Marisa Dailey, DDS · Ryan Richards, DDS · Victoria Hein-Spaulding, DMD	All five: dentist license Active (Kozlovsky, Dailey, Hein-Spaulding — under their names at other New Jersey addresses). Anesthesia permit Active — Kozlovsky, Dailey, Richards, Hein-Spaulding; Miele not found by us. Specialty permit — not found by us for any	Edward Kozlovsky — “Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon”. Joseph F. Miele — American Board of Dental Anesthesiology. Dailey, Richards, Hein-Spaulding — Not published	Online appointment form

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

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.

Nearby options

Practice	Surgeons	NJ licence and permits, checked September 3, 2026	Board certification (as published)	New patients
Atlantic Oral Surgery	Justin Ponquinette, DMD	Dentist license Active · Anesthesia permit Active · Specialty permit — not found by us	“Board certified as of 2010” — board not named	Online booking
Center for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Brian S. Krost, DMD · Jeffrey C. Elbaum, DDS · Michael Steinle, DMD · Nathan Ostler, DDS · Daniel Krost, DMD · Peter Henein, DMD · Erik Anderson, DDS	All seven: dentist license Active. Anesthesia permit Active — Steinle, Ostler, Daniel Krost, Henein, Anderson; Brian Krost, Elbaum not found by us. Specialty permit — not found by us for any	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — Brian Krost, Elbaum, Steinle, Daniel Krost, Henein (Steinle also National Dental Board of Anesthesiology). Ostler, Anderson — Not published	Consultation request
Central Jersey Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	John McElroy, DMD · Brian Paterson, DMD, MD · Jared Gelband, DMD · Gaurav Shah, DMD, MD	All four: dentist license Active. Anesthesia permit Active — Paterson, Gelband, Shah; McElroy not found by us. Specialty permit — not found by us for any	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — McElroy, Paterson, Gelband. Shah — Not published	Online scheduling

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 — nine people — through that register by name.

All nine show an Active dentist license. Six show it at a town where the practice says they work. The other three, Edward Kozlovsky, Marisa Dailey and Victoria Hein-Spaulding at Middletown Oral Surgery Associates, show Active licenses under their names in Marlboro and Wall Township, and we have not confirmed those records are the same people. Six of the nine also show an Active general anesthesia permit. For the other three — John Frattellone, Michael DiPietro and Joseph Miele — the register showed no anesthesia permit under the name on the day we looked, and the table says so.

The register showed no oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty permit under any of the nine names. Three of the nine are described on their own practices’ websites as diplomates of, or board certified by, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and that is printed in the table exactly as each practice states it; the specialty permit is a separate state record, and where we did not find one the table says not found by us. That is a fact about our search on one day, not a finding about any surgeon, and it is a question we are putting to each of the five practices; the cell changes the day the practice answers or the register does.

That matters because of the one thing most of these practices do not publish. Of the five, two name the sedation they offer on their websites: Atlantic says its staff assist with I.V. sedation, and Middletown lists “General & IV Anesthesia” as a procedure. Alliance and Lincroft each carry an “Anesthesia and Sedation” section that does not name a technique. The Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence does not mention anesthesia on its site at all. 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

Alliance Oral Surgery

Office: 79 Oak Hill Road, Middletown (Red Bank 07701) · also 329 South Main Street, Barnegat, and 147 Route 70, Toms River

John Frattellone, DMD, and Michael DiPietro, DMD, described on his own profile as a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, practice at the Oak Hill Road office, six minutes from the centre of Red Bank and twenty-four from Long Branch; the practice’s other two offices are in Ocean County, and the site does not say which surgeon is at which office on which days. New patients use an online appointment request or the phone.

Dr. Frattellone also practises under a second name a mile and a half away, Lincroft Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, which has its own website and its own row below.

Atlantic Oral Surgery

Office: 21 Gilbert Street North, Tinton Falls

Justin Ponquinette, DMD, who trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Montefiore in the Bronx and whose profile says he has been “board certified as of 2010” without naming the board, practises alone at the Gilbert Street office in Tinton Falls, eight minutes from Red Bank and sixteen from Long Branch, with online booking and published hours that run to 7:00 on Mondays.

Center for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Office: 1125 Highway 35, Ocean · also Hazlet, Freehold, Jackson, Brick and East Windsor

Seven oral and maxillofacial surgeons are named across this six-office group — Brian S. Krost, Jeffrey C. Elbaum, Michael Steinle, Nathan Ostler, Daniel Krost, Peter Henein and Erik Anderson — and five of them are described on the practice’s own site as diplomates of, or board certified by, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The Ocean office on Highway 35, eighteen minutes from Long Branch, is open weekdays 8:00 to 4:00 and takes new patients through an online consultation form; the site does not publish which surgeons see patients at which office.

Google’s own answer names a “Dr. Park” at this practice. The practice’s website does not, so this guide does not either.

Central Jersey Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Office: 1315 Allaire Avenue (Highway 35), Ocean Township · also 158 Main Street, Matawan, and 509 Stillwells Corner Road, Freehold

John McElroy, DMD, Brian Paterson, DMD, MD, and Jared Gelband, DMD — each described on the practice’s site as board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — and Gaurav Shah, DMD, MD, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons by his own profile, all practise at the three offices, of which the Allaire Avenue office in Ocean Township is eighteen minutes from Long Branch. Hours there are weekdays 8:30 to 5:00, and new patients schedule online or by phone.

One register note for this row: the state lists two dentists named Gaurav Shah. The Active license in Matawan and the Active general anesthesia permit in Ocean match this practice’s offices, and those are the records the table reports.

Lincroft Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Office: 515 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft

John Frattellone, DMD, who completed his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Westchester Medical Center, practises at the Newman Springs Road office in Lincroft, eight minutes from Red Bank, and new patients reach the office through a contact form or by phone. The site lists the Alliance office on Oak Hill Road as its second location and names a physician anesthesiologist, Dr. Nguyen, on staff; it does not state a board certification for Dr. Frattellone.

Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence

Office: 276 Broad Street, Red Bank

Kayvon Haghighi, DDS, MD, a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons by his own profile, practises alone at the Broad Street office — the only oral surgery office inside the eleven towns, four minutes from the centre of Red Bank and fourteen from Long Branch. The site lists cleft and craniofacial surgery, corrective jaw surgery, facial trauma and TMJ surgery alongside implants and wisdom teeth, and asks new patients to call.

Middletown Oral Surgery Associates

Office: 21 New Monmouth Road, Middletown

Five surgeons practise at the New Monmouth Road office in Middletown, nine minutes from Red Bank: Edward Kozlovsky, DMD, described on his profile as a “Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon”; Joseph F. Miele, DDS, a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons; and Marisa Dailey, DDS, Ryan Richards, DDS, and Victoria Hein-Spaulding, DMD, each of whom completed an oral and maxillofacial surgery residency by the site’s account. The office publishes alternating Saturday hours, 9:00 to 1:00, and takes new patients through an online appointment form. From Long Branch it is twenty-seven minutes, so it clears the line from Red Bank only.

Listed in the Market, Not Checked the Same Way

Red Bank Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons / Robert D. Feldman, DDS, 227 Maple Avenue, Red Bank. Google and several directories list Dr. Feldman as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at this address. We could not find a website of his own, and the criteria for the table require one, so he is listed here rather than in it. If the practice publishes a site, or writes to us, the row is added.

Google labels one more nearby listing “oral surgeon”: Dental Health Center of Monmouth Beach on Beach Road. Its own website describes it as a general dental practice — the Monmouth Beach site names three general dentists — and it names no oral and maxillofacial surgeon, so it does not meet the criteria for this page.

Common Questions

Is there an oral surgeon in Red Bank?

In Red Bank, one: the Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence on Broad Street, with Alliance Oral Surgery six minutes out on Oak Hill Road.

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; two of these five websites say what is actually offered, so for the rest it is a phone call.

What will the consultation cost, and is imaging included?

Ask before you book. None of the five 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 five 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 five market for them. Four publish an online booking, appointment-request or contact-form path; the Maxillofacial Surgery Center for Excellence asks you to call. 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 Red Bank. From Red Bank, Broad Street is four minutes, Oak Hill Road six, Tinton Falls and Lincroft eight, and Middletown nine.

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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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.

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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 Red Bank, 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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