Dentists in Montville and Kinnelon, NJ

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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: Dentists in Montville and Kinnelon, NJ

How We Selected These Dentists

Every practice in the table has an office you can walk into in Montville or Kinnelon, and at least one dentist whose New Jersey dental license the state register showed as Active on September 17, 2026. That is a test, not a judgment. Practices are listed alphabetically.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Practices appear here because they meet the criteria described above — an office in Montville or Kinnelon, and at least one dentist with an Active New Jersey dental license. 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 Montville and Kinnelon. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

The Dentists, Compared

Practice	Dentist(s), as named on their own site	NJ license	Ownership	New patients	Evening or Saturday hours (as published)	Record checked
Ferrari Dental	Jon R. Ferrari	22DI01821400 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	New patient forms	Tuesday to 7 pm; no Saturday	September 2026
Fran Bihary DMD	Fran Bihary	22DI01822500 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	Not published	Not published	September 2026
Krause Comprehensive Dental Care	Evan S. Krause Alan S. Krause	22DI02547000 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026 22DI01403500 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	Online booking	Tuesday to 6 pm, Thursday to 8 pm; no Saturday	September 2026
Montville Center for Dentistry	Brian Marino	22DI02208902 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	New patient forms	Monday and Thursday to 7 pm, Tuesday and Wednesday to 6 pm; Saturday 8 am–2 pm	September 2026
Montville Dental Associates	Matthew Spatzner	22DI02301300 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	Online booking	Monday and Tuesday to 7 pm; Saturday 8 am–12 pm, once per month	September 2026
Montville Smiles	Anaheata Esmailzada Prerna Jain	22DI02208500 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026 22DI02334600 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	Online booking	Monday to 6 pm, Wednesday to 7 pm; Saturday by appointment only	September 2026
Morris Dental Care	Janice Lee	22DI01998200 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Not published	New patient forms	Monday, Wednesday and Friday to 6 pm; Saturday 8 am–2 pm	September 2026
Sculpted Smiles	Stanley Yeager	22DI00954400 · Active · checked Sept 17, 2026	Independently owned	New patient forms	Tuesday and Thursday to 7 pm; one Saturday a month 9 am–2 pm	September 2026

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

License status is what the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register showed on September 17, 2026, looked up by name. Record checked names the month we last checked that practice’s record ourselves.

The Practices

Ferrari Dental, Montville

150 River Rd Suite K1A, Montville, NJ 07045 · (973) 263-2967

Jon R. Ferrari holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The practice publishes new patient forms and an appointment request form. Krause Comprehensive Dental Care and Montville Center for Dentistry are at the same street address, in other suites.

Fran Bihary DMD, Kinnelon

170 Kinnelon Rd, Suite 14, Kinnelon, NJ 07405 · 973-492-0533

Fran Bihary holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The license is on file under the name Francoise Bihary.

Krause Comprehensive Dental Care, Montville

150 River Road Suite J-2, Montville, NJ 07045 · 973-784-8979

Evan S. Krause and Alan S. Krause hold Active New Jersey dental licenses. The practice publishes online booking. Ferrari Dental and Montville Center for Dentistry are at the same street address, in other suites.

Montville Center for Dentistry, Montville

150 River Road, Suite D2, Montville, NJ 07045 · (973) 334-4114

Brian Marino holds an Active New Jersey dental license. Also named on the practice’s website: Stacy Gurbarg, Anthony Nguyen and Alexander Lavarez. The practice’s website names Dr. Brian Marino as dentist and owner, says he acquired the office in April 2021, and describes it as part of his group of New Jersey practices, which the site does not name. The practice publishes new patient forms and an appointment request form, and states that new patients are welcome. Ferrari Dental and Krause Comprehensive Dental Care are at the same street address, in other suites.

Montville Dental Associates, Montville

170 Changebridge Rd, Suite B3-3, Montville, NJ 07045 · 973-575-5555

Matthew Spatzner holds an Active New Jersey dental license. The practice publishes online booking, new patient forms and an appointment request form, and states that it is accepting new patients. Morris Dental Care and Sculpted Smiles are at the same street address, in other suites.

Montville Smiles, Montville

350 Main Rd #202, Montville, NJ 07045 · (973) 302-2079

Anaheata Esmailzada and Prerna Jain hold Active New Jersey dental licenses. Also named on the practice’s website: Niyati Kapadia, whom the site calls a periodontist. The practice publishes online booking, a new patient form and an appointment request form, and states that it is currently accepting new patients. Its site also prints a second office in North Arlington. Montville Pediatric Dentistry, which treats children only, is at the same street address, in #101.

Morris Dental Care, Montville

170 Changebridge Road Suite D5-2, Montville, NJ 07045 · (973) 227-1820

Janice Lee holds an Active New Jersey dental license. Also named on the practice’s website: Gila Lerman Rosenbaum, whom the site calls a periodontist; Rachel Snyder, whom the site calls an endodontist and whose surname it prints both as Synder and as Snyder; and Ilya Kvartin. The practice publishes new patient forms and an appointment request form, and states that it welcomes new patients. Montville Dental Associates and Sculpted Smiles are at the same street address, in other suites.

Sculpted Smiles, Montville

170 Changebridge Road, Unit B4, Montville, NJ 07045 · (973) 335-9432

Stanley Yeager holds an Active New Jersey dental license. Also named on the practice’s website: Joanna Kurman. The practice’s website says Dr. Joanna Kurman acquired the practice from Dr. Stanley Yeager effective February 2025 and that Dr. Yeager remains with the practice. The site gives 170 Changebridge Road, Unit B4 as its updated location; some directories still list 112 Main Rd. The practice publishes new patient forms and an appointment request form. Montville Dental Associates and Morris Dental Care are at the same street address, in other suites.

Listed in the Market, Not Checked the Same Way

Integrated Dental Aesthetics, 11 Kiel Ave., Kinnelon, NJ 07405. We have not yet taken a license reading for the dentists this practice’s website names.

Peter Brusco DMD, 170 Kinnelon Rd, Suite 29A, Kinnelon, New Jersey 07405. We have not yet taken a license reading for the dentists this practice’s website names.

Prerna, Jain, DDS, Montville, NJ 07045. No website of its own was found for this listing. Prerna Jain is named on Montville Smiles’ website and appears in the table above under that practice.

Common Questions

Is every dentist here accepting new patients?

Where the New patients column reads “Not published,” the practice’s website does not publish a statement about current availability. That is a fact about what each practice’s website says, not a claim that they are closed to new patients — call and ask.

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.

Are specialist practices listed here?

No. The table lists general dentists. Just4Kids Dental, Montville Pediatric Dentistry and Thrive Pediatric Dentistry in Kinnelon each treat children only and are not in the table.

Is a Towaco, Pine Brook or Butler address in this area?

Towaco and Pine Brook are postal names inside Montville Township. Some directories give a Butler postal address for offices at 170 Kinnelon Rd and 11 Kiel Ave; the property-tax record places both buildings in Kinnelon Borough.

Additional Resources

More guides to Montville and Kinnelon

The same guide for other markets

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, 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.

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