Dentists in Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville and North Plainfield, NJ: Who Is Accepting New Patients

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The Guide: Dentists in Somerset, Manville and North Plainfield, 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 every general dental practice we could find with an office in Franklin Township — where the mail runs under Somerset, with Franklin Park and East Millstone also in use — or in Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook, 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. Bridgewater, Somerville and the Watchung hills each have their own guide; this one covers the eastern edge of Somerset County, along Easton Avenue, Route 27 and Route 22.

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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook, 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 September 5, 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; a question at the bottom of this page names the specialist practices in these towns so you know why they are missing. A practice that failed one of the three tests, or could not be checked, is not deleted: it sits in a labelled section below the main list with the reason, so you can see who we could not check rather than wonder why a name is missing.

Twenty-five practices meet the tests — seventeen in Franklin Township, three in Manville and five in North Plainfield. Four more, including the one candidate in South Bound Brook, are listed below the table with the reason each could not be checked the same way. If any of that has changed, the correction address at the bottom of this page is for exactly that.

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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook 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 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. 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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

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 ownership. Seven of the twenty-five practices publish something the ownership column can print: two are Dental365 offices, one is part of The Smilist group, Platinum Dental Group and Saint Vincent’s Dental Center each run several offices of their own, KK Dental names its founder and owner, and Manville Dental Group says outright who owns it. The other eighteen publish no ownership statement, and their cells read Not published rather than guessing.

What the Register Statuses Mean

The twenty-five practices in the table publish fifty-six dentist names between them. Fifty-four of those names matched a record on the register, and every one of the fifty-four showed as Active on September 5, 2026. The other two are names the register could not be searched for as the practice publishes them: one returned no result under the published name, and one is published without a first name. The table prints each of those facts next to the names that did check out, and the entries explain them.

For reading the register generally: 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.

The Practices, Compared

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 read, the name comes from the business profile it maintains on Google or from the state register itself, 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, Saturday and Sunday times called out because they are what most people are looking for.

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 September 5, 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 the same day. Where the table reads “Not found by us,” the practice has no website we could read, or the page would not show us the detail; that is a limit of our check, not a statement about the practice.

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 a practice’s own pages and the register write a name differently, the cell or the entry says so: Philip Ali Afshar for Philip Afshar, G Thomas Bishara for Thomas Bishara, Francis J Keneally for Francis J. Keneally, Jr. Where a published name could not be matched or searched, the cell prints that fact, dated, and nothing else — it is a limit of the search, not a claim about the person.

Ownership is a fact, not a grade. Independently owned means the practice says so on its own site; 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. A practice named after its dentist, or organised as an LLC or P.A., is not thereby “independently owned” in this table; the practice has to say it.

The Practices

A2Z Dental Care, Manville

A2Z Dental Care, at 255 North Main Street, names four dentists — Dr. Leonard Vertsman, Dr. Diana Gurshumova, Dr. Gregory Golder and Dr. Gabriel Lerman — across general, implant, restorative and cosmetic work. New patients complete forms online before a first visit, and published hours include Monday to 6 pm, Saturday 9 am to 1 pm for urgent care only, and no Thursday hours. The register showed all four — Leonard Vertsman, Diana Gurshumova, Gregory Golder and Gabriel Lerman — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Advanced Dental Arts, Somerset

Advanced Dental Arts, P.A., at 738 Easton Avenue, is the practice of Dr. Philip Afshar, DMD, and describes general dentistry with cosmetic and restorative work. The pages we read do not publish office hours or a booking path. The register showed Philip Ali Afshar — the register’s spelling — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Brilliant Smiles of North Plainfield, North Plainfield

Brilliant Smiles of North Plainfield, at 176 Cedar Street, names Dr. Sonal Deshpande and a second dentist the site calls only Dr. Lee. The site says it is welcoming new patients right now, and published hours include Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to 7 pm and Saturday 8 am to 1 pm. On September 5, 2026, the register showed Sonal Deshpande as Active; the name Dr. Lee, published without a first name, cannot be usefully searched on a register of individuals, so that name went unchecked — a limit of the search, not a claim about the person.

Brunswick Dental Care, Somerset

Brunswick Dental Care, at 225 DeMott Lane, second floor, Suite 5, is the practice of Wael Ibrahim, D.M.D., who its pages describe with over twenty years in general dentistry. The site’s contact page publishes a phone number and email but no office hours or booking path on the pages we could read. The register showed Wael S. Ibrahim as Active on September 5, 2026.

Cedar Dental, North Plainfield

Cedar Dental, at 176 Cedar Street, Suite 1, names three dentists: Jennifer A. Martin, DMD, Richard A. Meleo, DDS, FAGD, and Jane E. Ligums, DMD, FAGD. New patients request an appointment online, and published hours run Monday to Thursday to 6 pm, with Saturday hours once monthly to 1 pm. The register showed all three — Jennifer Audrey Martin, Richard A. Meleo and Jane E. Ligums — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Cedar Smiles Dental, Somerset

Cedar Smiles Dental, at 120 Cedar Grove Lane, is the practice of Dr. Kelvin Wong, DDS, covering family, cosmetic and restorative care with an in-house membership plan for the uninsured. New patients book online, and published hours include Monday to Thursday to 6 pm with both Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 2 pm — one of two practices in this guide publishing Sunday hours. The register showed Kelvin Wong as Active on September 5, 2026.

Complete Dental Care, Somerset

Complete Dental Care, at 25 Clyde Road, Suite 102, names Dr. Devang Modi, DMD, and Dr. Kapil Kundra. Published hours include Tuesday and Friday to 7 pm and Saturday 9 am to 1 pm, with a note that the office will stay open longer if a later appointment is needed. The register showed Devang H. Modi and Kapil Kundra as Active on September 5, 2026.

Dental Care Somerset, Somerset

Dental Care Somerset, at 441 Elizabeth Avenue, is a Dental365 office naming four dentists: Dr. Cheryn Amo-Adjei, Dr. Alexa Brown, Dr. Amanda Disney and Dr. Shaunak Pal, the last in periodontics. New patients are welcome per its pages, and published hours include Monday and Tuesday to 7 pm and Saturday 8 am to 3 pm. The register showed all four — Cheryn Amo-Adjei, Alexa Christine Brown, Amanda Kate Disney and Shaunak Pal — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Dental Designer, North Plainfield

Dental Designer, at 1300 Rock Avenue, Suite A4, across from the Route 22 Costco, is the practice of Dr. Harmanpreet Kaur, DDS, who the site says took over the practice in 2016. New patients complete forms through a patient portal, and published hours include Tuesday and Thursday 2 pm to 7 pm and alternate Saturdays 9 am to 2 pm, with same-day appointments advertised. The register showed Harmanpreet Kaur as Active on September 5, 2026.

Friendly Dental of Somerset, Somerset

Friendly Dental of Somerset, at 31 Clyde Road, Suite 101, is the practice of Dr. Sandeep Kaur, and advertises complimentary second opinions and an in-house dental plan for the uninsured. Published hours include Thursday 12 pm to 7 pm, with no Saturday hours published; the pages we read would not show us a booking path. The register showed Sandeep Kaur, DDS, as Active on September 5, 2026.

KK Dental, Somerset

KK Dental’s Somerset office, at 1743 Route 27, is one of the group’s three offices — Somerset, North Brunswick and Edison — and its pages name Dr. Kishor Kulkarni as founder and owner. The Somerset office welcomes new patients and families, and published hours run weekdays 9 am to 5 pm with Saturday and Sunday both 8 am to 2 pm — the other practice in this guide publishing Sunday hours. The register showed Kishor Kulkarni as Active on September 5, 2026.

Manville Dental Group, Manville

Manville Dental Group, at 7 Washington Avenue, is the practice of Dr. Nirali Trivedi, who its site says became a partner in 2007 and remains sole owner today. New patients are welcomed in as many words, and published hours include Monday to 7 pm and Saturday 8 am to 1 pm. The register showed Nirali Trivedi, Manville, as Active on September 5, 2026.

Midjersey Family & Implant Dentistry, Somerset

Midjersey Family & Implant Dentistry, at 107 Cedar Grove Lane, Suite 102, names Dr. Badr Raissi and Dr. Karim Elmorshedy and runs six days a week across general, implant, orthodontic, pediatric and cosmetic work. New patients schedule online, and published hours include Tuesday to Thursday to 6 pm and Saturday 9 am to 3 pm. The register showed Badr Raissi and Karim Elmorshedy as Active on September 5, 2026.

Pearl Family Dentistry, North Plainfield

Pearl Family Dentistry, at 46 Pearl Street, names Dr. Marina Kuzmich, D.M.D., Dr. Francis J. Keneally, Jr., D.M.D., and Dr. Sonia Mathew. New patients are always welcome per its pages, and published hours include Tuesday to 7 pm and Saturday 9 am to 2 pm. The register showed all three — Marina Kuzmich, Francis J. Keneally and Sonia Mathew — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Platinum Dental Group, Somerset

Platinum Dental Group’s Somerset office, at 636 Easton Avenue, Suite 1, is one of the group’s five offices — Bayonne, Orange, Somerset, Sea Girt and Secaucus — and its pages name seven dentists: Dr. Rishi I. Nijhawan, DMD, FICOI, Dr. Mena Johny, DDS, Dr. Tinny Dhaliwal, DMD, Dr. Koonal Patel, Dr. Kapil Patel, Dr. Thomas Bishara, DMD, and Dr. Sapan Parikh, DMD, FICOI. New patients contact the office to schedule, and the site does not publish office hours on the pages we read. On September 5, 2026, the register showed six of the seven as Active — Rishi I. Nijhawan, Mena Johny, Koonal S. Patel, Kapil Narendrabhai Patel, G Thomas Bishara and Sapan Parikh; the search under the name Tinny Dhaliwal returned no result that day, which is a limit of a name search, not a statement about the person, and the correction address below is open to the practice.

Saint Vincent’s Dental Center, North Plainfield

Saint Vincent’s Dental Center’s North Plainfield office is at 116 Watchung Avenue per the business profile it maintains; its own site lists North Plainfield alongside Morristown and Somerville offices and communicates in Spanish and English. The site names Dr. Augusto Wong and Dra. Carly Carson. Prospective patients reach the office through a contact form, and the site does not publish office hours. The register showed Augusto Wong and Carly Carson as Active on September 5, 2026.

Smile Designs 101, Somerset

Smile Designs 101, at 900 Easton Avenue, Suite 31, is the practice of Kosmas Kasimatis, DMD, pairing family dentistry with cosmetic work. Published hours include Monday 8 am to 7 pm and Wednesday 10 am to 7 pm, with alternate Saturdays 8 am to noon by appointment from October through May; the pages we read would not show us a booking path. The register showed Kosmas Kasimatis as Active on September 5, 2026.

Smiles Unlimited Dental Center, Manville

Smiles Unlimited Dental Center, at 60 South Main Street, names Dr. Valentina Kesler and Dr. Emil Kesler. Its pages describe how a first visit works — an individual treatment plan with several options — and published hours include Tuesday 9 am to 7 pm, Wednesday 11 am to 7 pm, and every third Saturday 9 am to 2 pm. The register showed Valentina Kesler and Emil Kesler, both of Manville, as Active on September 5, 2026.

Somerset Dental Professionals, Somerset

Somerset Dental Professionals LLC, at 1527 Route 27, Suite 2700, names Dr. Catherine Lagrada, DMD, and Dr. Majd Mohsen, DMD, and notes that the office speaks Spanish, Tagalog and Arabic. New patients request an appointment through the site, and published hours include Monday and Tuesday to 7 pm and Saturday 9 am to 2 pm on the second and fourth of the month, with the office closed Thursday and Friday. The register showed Catherine Lagrada and Majd Mohsen as Active on September 5, 2026.

Somerset Dentists, Somerset

Somerset Dentists, at 710 Easton Avenue, Suite 1, is the practice Dr. Anna Pollatos founded, and names Dr. Mikhail Babayan, a board-certified prosthodontist, alongside her; its pages emphasise sleep apnea work, Invisalign and implants within a general practice. The site says it is currently welcoming new patients, and does not publish office hours on the pages we read. The register showed Anna Pollatos and Mikhail Babayan as Active on September 5, 2026.

Somerset Smile Studio, Somerset

Somerset Smile Studio, at 812 Hamilton Street, Suite 1, publishes a general and cosmetic practice with online booking, weekday hours to 6 pm Monday through Thursday, Friday to 2 pm, and Saturday by appointment. Its own pages name no dentist; the business profile names Ekow Acquaah, DDS, and the register showed Ekow Acquaah, Somerset, as Active on September 5, 2026.

Somerset Smiles, Somerset

Somerset Smiles, at 650 Easton Avenue, names Dr. Raj Sinha, D.M.D., Dr. Joanna Hrymoc-Sinha, D.M.D., and Dr. Igor Smolianski, D.D.S., across family, implant, cosmetic and orthodontic work. New patients request an appointment through the site, and published hours include Thursday 12 pm to 8 pm and Saturday 9 am to noon. The register showed Raj Sinha, Joanna Hrymoc-Sinha and Igor Smolianski as Active on September 5, 2026.

Stephen Kondorossy DMD, Somerset

Stephen K. Kondorossy, DMD, AFAAID, MBS, practises general dentistry at 1445 Hamilton Street, carrying on a family dental tradition per its pages, with implant and sedation work alongside. New patients request an appointment by phone or through the site, and published hours include Tuesday and Thursday 1 pm to 7 pm, with no Saturday hours. The register showed Stephen Kondorossy as Active on September 5, 2026.

The Art of Dentistry and Spa, Somerset

The Art of Dentistry and Spa, at 32 Worlds Fair Drive, is a Dental365 office naming Dr. Devon Berry, Dr. Dean Chencharik and Dr. Jacqueline Ubhaus. New patients are always welcome per its pages, and published hours include Monday and Thursday to 7 pm, Wednesday to 6 pm, and Saturday 8 am to 2 pm. The register showed all three — Devon V. Berry, Dean Chencharik and Jacqueline Ubhaus — as Active on September 5, 2026.

The Smilist Dental Somerset, Somerset

The Smilist Dental Somerset, at 97 Cedar Grove Lane, is part of The Smilist group and names five dentists: Dr. Anthony Molesphini, Dr. Bahar Ansari, Dr. Elisa Marantz, Dr. Jeffrey Chustckie and Dr. Zain Ahmed. New patients book online, with a new-patient exam offer advertised, and published hours run weekdays to 6 pm with Saturday 8 am to 2 pm. The register showed all five — Anthony J. Molesphini, Bahar Ansari, Elisa Marantz, Jeffrey H. Chustckie and Zain Ahmed — as Active on September 5, 2026.

Listed in the Market, Not Checked the Same Way

Four listings are here so that a name you were given is not simply missing.

Somerset Family Dental, Somerset

Somerset Family Dental, at 11 Clyde Road, maintains a business profile on Google, but we could find no website of the practice’s own and no dentist named anywhere we could read — and with no name, there is nothing to run against the register. The correction door below is open, and a single name would move this practice into the table.

Destination Dental Care, Somerset

Destination Dental Care, at 7 Cedar Grove Lane, Suite 33, maintains a live business profile, but the practice’s domain now resolves to a for-sale parking page, and nothing we could read names a dentist. As with the practice above, a name is all it would take.

Somerset Dental Associates, Manville

Somerset Dental Associates, at 311 South Main Street in Manville, has a live website, but it names its dentist only as Dr. Patel, with no first name anywhere on the pages that would load for us. The register lists many dentists by that surname, and a surname alone cannot honestly be matched to one of them, so the license went unchecked. That is a limit of the published name, not a claim about the practice.

South Bound Brook Dental, South Bound Brook

South Bound Brook Dental is the practice of Dr. James Occhipinti, DMD, FAGD, and is the one dental listing we found carrying South Bound Brook’s name. Its own site lists the office at 19 Wills Way, Building 6, in Piscataway, while its map link points to 120 Main Street in South Bound Brook, and we could not resolve from published sources which address is seeing patients today. The register showed James J. Occhipinti as Active on September 5, 2026 — the license is not in question; the premises are what we could not check.

Common Questions

How do I check a dentist’s license in Somerset, Manville or North Plainfield, 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.

Is Somerset, NJ a town?

Not a municipality — it is a postal name. Mail addressed to Somerset 08873 is delivered in Franklin Township, and Franklin Park and East Millstone are postal names inside the township too. Every practice in this guide with a Somerset address has its office in Franklin Township. Somerset the postal town is not Somerville, the county seat four miles west with its own guide, and it is not the Somerset Hills, the Bernardsville and Basking Ridge area covered by another guide again. The county as a whole is Somerset County, which contains all of them.

Is North Plainfield the same as Plainfield?

No. North Plainfield is a borough in Somerset County; Plainfield, across the Green Brook, is a city in Union County, and several practices with Plainfield addresses show up in searches for North Plainfield. This guide draws the line at the municipality: the five North Plainfield practices in the table state offices in the borough, and Plainfield’s practices belong to a Union County guide, not this one.

What does it mean when a register search returns nothing for a name?

The register is searched name by name, so a result depends on searching the name the way the register spells it. A practice may publish a working name, a shortened first name, or a spelling that differs from the license record, and the search then returns nothing without saying anything about the person. Two names in this guide could not be matched for exactly that kind of reason, and the table prints the fact, dated. Where a license does appear with a status other than Active — Inactive and Retired are elected statuses the board records, and Expired means the renewal date has passed — the status alone does not mean a person is practising without a license; it is a reason to ask which dentist you will see.

Which dentists in Somerset, Manville or North Plainfield have evening, Saturday or Sunday hours?

As published on their own sites when we checked: Somerset Smiles runs Thursday to 8 pm, and twelve more practices in the table publish at least one weekday to 7 pm. Two publish Sunday hours — KK Dental, Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 2 pm, and Cedar Smiles Dental, Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 2 pm. Saturday schedules vary more than any other detail: The Art of Dentistry and Spa, The Smilist, Dental Care Somerset, Midjersey, Pearl Family Dentistry, Complete Dental Care, Brilliant Smiles and Manville Dental Group publish weekly Saturday hours, as do the two Sunday practices, while Somerset Dental Professionals, Cedar Dental, Smiles Unlimited, Smile Designs 101 and Dental Designer publish alternating or monthly Saturday schedules, and A2Z’s Saturday is urgent care only. Hours change; the table shows what each site said on the date in its header.

Why are there no orthodontists, periodontists or endodontists in this guide?

Because they are different categories, and each gets its own guide. The specialist practices these searches surface most often sit in North Plainfield at 176 Cedar Street and 339 Somerset Street — Goldberg Implants & Periodontics, a periodontal practice in the same building as two general practices in this table, and Modern Micro Endodontics, an endodontic practice — and both practise their specialty rather than general dentistry. Oral surgery for these towns is covered in Garden State Circle’s oral surgery guides as they publish.

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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 opened or 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 Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook 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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