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Dentists in Forked River – Lacey, NJ: Every License Checked, and How Each Practice Takes New Patients

Dentists in Forked River – Lacey, 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 Forked River – Lacey, 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 Lacey Township, Ocean Township or Barnegat Township, 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
All About Smiles Dentistry, Lacey Township	Dr. LouAnn B. Van Liew D.M.D., F.A.G.D; Dr. Deborah A. Hoover, D.M.D.	Active	Not published	Online booking	Mon–Tue to 8:00pm; Saturday Closed
Dr. Amit Patel Family Dentistry, Barnegat Township	Dr. Amit Patel, D.D.S.	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Thursday to 7:00pm; Sat 9:00am to 1:00pm
Barnegat Dental, Barnegat Township	Thomas Malatesta, D.M.D.	Active	Not published	Not published	Monday–Wednesday 8 AM to 6 PM
Best Impressions Dental, Lacey Township	Dr. Katelyn Campbell, DDS	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Thursday: 1–8 PM; Friday – Saturday: Closed
Forked River Family Dental Care, Lacey Township	David Hecht, DDS	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Wednesday to 8 PM; Saturday Closed
Nu Dental Barnegat, Barnegat Township	Dr. Admasu Gizachew	Active	Not published	Online booking	Thursday to 8:00pm
Sam Khammar, DDS, Lacey Township	Sam Khammar, DDS	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Tuesday to 7:00pm; Friday – Sunday: Closed
Shannon Keyes, DMD, Lacey Township	Shannon Keyes, DMD	Active	Not published	New patient forms	Monday to 7:30 PM; Saturday Closed
Shore Smiles Dental Arts, LLC, Waretown (Ocean Township)	Dr. Grantham	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Wednesday to 7:00pm; Saturday By appointment only
The Smilist Dental Lacey, Lacey Township	Dr. Tim Auger; Dr. Elisa Bland; Dr. Marc Buttacavoli; Dr. Shivani Pandey; Dr. Kripa Patel	Active	Part of The Smilist	Welcoming new patients, as published	Saturday: 8am – 1pm; weekdays to 6pm
Dr. Z Dentistry, Lacey Township	Dr. Robert Zona, DDS	Active	Not published	Request an appointment	Tuesday and Friday to 7 PM; Saturday Closed

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

All About Smiles Dentistry, Lacey Township

710 Lacey Rd, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 242-3567
The register showed Dr. LouAnn B. Van Liew D.M.D., F.A.G.D, Dr. Deborah A. Hoover, D.M.D. as Active on November 9, 2026.

Dr. Amit Patel Family Dentistry, Barnegat Township

890 West Bay Avenue, Barnegat, NJ 08005
(609) 698-0415
The register showed Dr. Amit Patel, D.D.S. as Active on November 9, 2026.

Barnegat Dental, Barnegat Township

498 N Main St, Barnegat, NJ 08005
(609) 698-7770
The register showed Thomas Malatesta, D.M.D. as Active on November 9, 2026.

Best Impressions Dental, Lacey Township

321 Lacey Road, Forked River, NJ 08731
609-693-9166
The register showed Dr. Katelyn Campbell, DDS as Active on November 9, 2026.

Forked River Family Dental Care, Lacey Township

620 Lacey Rd, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 693-7171
The register showed David Hecht, DDS as Active on November 9, 2026.

Nu Dental Barnegat, Barnegat Township

770 Lighthouse Dr, Barnegat, NJ 08005
(609) 879-0036
The register showed Dr. Admasu Gizachew as Active on November 9, 2026.

Sam Khammar, DDS, Lacey Township

123 N Main St, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 242-3464
The register showed Sam Khammar, DDS as Active on November 9, 2026.

Shannon Keyes, DMD, Lacey Township

34 Manchester Ave #204, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 971-7900
The register showed Shannon Keyes, DMD as Active on November 9, 2026.

Shore Smiles Dental Arts, LLC, Waretown (Ocean Township)

501 US-9 #700, Waretown, NJ 08758
(609) 281-5335
The register showed Dr. Grantham as Active on November 9, 2026.

The Smilist Dental Lacey, Lacey Township

302a N Main St, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 804-5958 · (856) 202-7392 (site) · (609) 549-6925 (Google) — all written
The register showed Dr. Tim Auger, Dr. Elisa Bland, Dr. Marc Buttacavoli, Dr. Shivani Pandey, Dr. Kripa Patel as Active on November 9, 2026.

Dr. Z Dentistry, Lacey Township

1044 Lacey Rd, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 693-8338
The register showed Dr. Robert Zona, DDS as Active on November 9, 2026.

Common Questions

How do I check a dentist’s license in Forked River – Lacey, 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 Forked River – Lacey, 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 Lacey Township, Ocean Township or Barnegat Township 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 Lacey Township, Ocean Township and Barnegat Township, 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 Lacey Township, Ocean Township or Barnegat Township, 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.

Eleven 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 Lacey Township, Ocean Township or Barnegat Township 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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