Oral Surgeons in Hunterdon County, NJ

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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 Flemington, Clinton, Lebanon, Whitehouse Station, Chester and Hackettstown, 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 Flemington and Lebanon 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 Hunterdon County, NJ

How We Selected These Practices

This guide covers Hunterdon County.

Where fewer than six practices in this county 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

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Oral Surgeons in Hunterdon County — Compared

Practice	Surgeons	Office	Board certification	New patients
Hunterdon Oral & Maxillofacial Surgical Specialists	Olumide Olawoye, DDS	1100 Wescott Drive, Suite 108, Flemington	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery · National Dental Board of Anesthesiology · American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine	Appointment request
Somerset Oral Surgery and Dental Implants	Alan Hecht, DMD · Tyler Jacobs, DDS, MD	1220 Route 31, Suite 11, Lebanon	Alan Hecht — American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Tyler Jacobs — Not published	Online booking
West Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Dental Implant Surgery	Joseph Sansevere, DMD · Travis Reed, DMD · Matthew Sansevere, DMD	6 Sandhill Road, Suite 301, Flemington	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — all three	Patient registration

Practice details verified against each practice’s own website in August 2026.

Nearby options

Practice	Surgeons	Office	Board certification	New patients
Hudson Oral Surgery Based in Hackettstown	Steven Bogart, DDS · Hubert Gugala, DMD · Yaniv Harel, DMD, MD · Harleen Kaur, DDS	57 US-46, Suite 207, Hackettstown	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — all four	Online booking
New Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery Based in Branchburg	Karl Maloney, DDS	3322 US-22, Suite 1207-1208, Branchburg	American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Appointment request
Randolph Center for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Based in Hackettstown	Not published for this office	616 Willow Grove Street, Suite 4, Hackettstown	Not published	Patient registration forms

What Almost None of Them Tell You

Of the six practices on this page, one publishes what anesthesia it actually offers.

Hunterdon Oral & Maxillofacial Surgical Specialists names intravenous sedation and pediatric anesthesia on its website. West Jersey refers to “a full range of sedation options” without saying what they are. Hudson refers to “experienced anesthesiologists.” Somerset has a page about anesthesia that does not name a single technique. New Jersey Oral lists anesthesia as a procedure. Randolph’s Hackettstown page says nothing at all.

We wanted this to be a column in the table. It cannot be, because five of six rows would read Not published — and a column where almost every cell is empty tells you less than a sentence does.

So here is the sentence: if sedation matters to you, you will have to ask, because the websites will not answer it. The questions worth asking are further down.

The Practices

Hunterdon Oral & Maxillofacial Surgical Specialists

Dr. Olumide Olawoye holds active surgical and admitting privileges at Hunterdon Medical Center, on whose Flemington campus the practice sits, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine.

Somerset Oral Surgery and Dental Implants

The practice was founded in 1970, and its Lebanon office on Route 31 is ten minutes from Flemington and twelve from Lebanon, where Alan Hecht, DMD, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, practices with Tyler Jacobs, DDS, MD.

West Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Dental Implant Surgery

Joseph Sansevere, DMD; Travis Reed, DMD; and Matthew Sansevere, DMD are board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons at the Sandhill Road office in Flemington, which uses 3D cone beam CT imaging for surgical planning.

Nearby options

Hudson Oral Surgery

Four surgeons — Steven Bogart, DDS; Hubert Gugala, DMD; Yaniv Harel, DMD, MD; and Harleen Kaur, DDS — are board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and the practice’s Hackettstown office on Route 46 is one of four New Jersey locations.

New Jersey Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery

Dr. Karl Maloney, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon with sixteen years in practice, sees patients at the Branchburg office on Route 22 — fourteen minutes from Lebanon and twenty-four from Flemington.

Randolph Center for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

The Hackettstown office on Willow Grove Street is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 5:00 and is one of several New Jersey locations staffed from a group of ten oral and maxillofacial surgeons; the practice does not publish which of the ten see patients at this address.

Common Questions

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. As noted above, only one of these six publishes the answer, so this is a phone call.

What will the consultation cost, and is imaging included?

Ask before you book. Consultation fees and whether 3D imaging is bundled vary between these practices, and none of them publishes a price. Ask specifically whether a CT scan is billed separately.

Do they take my insurance?

None of the six 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 six actively market for them — several publish online booking and new-patient forms. None publishes a formal statement about current availability, so if you have a specific procedure or a timeline, ask when you call.

How We Checked This

Surgeon names, credentials, addresses, phone numbers and hours were taken from each practice’s own website in August 2026. Board certifications are stated exactly as each practice states them.

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

Practice details verified against each practice’s own website in August 2026.

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.

Something out of date?

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