Prosthodontists in Monmouth County, NJ
Most people do not start by searching for a prosthodontist.
They start with a problem.
A missing tooth.
Several missing teeth.
A crown that has failed.
Dentures that do not fit well.
An implant case that has become more complicated than expected.
A bite that feels off after years of dental work.
A mouth full of old restorations and the growing suspicion that fixing one tooth at a time is no longer the smartest plan.
That is where prosthodontics starts to make sense.
A prosthodontist is a dental specialist with advanced training in restoring and replacing teeth. The specialty includes dental implants, crowns, bridges, dentures, complex restorative care, esthetics and full-mouth rehabilitation.
If you are searching for a prosthodontist in Monmouth County, that distinction matters because many general dentists also provide crowns, implants, veneers and dentures.
The question is not whether a general dentist can perform restorative dentistry.
Many do.
The question is when the case is complex enough that you want someone whose specialty training is specifically built around planning and rebuilding the bite, function and appearance of the teeth.
That can be one tooth.
It can also be an entire mouth.
If your dentist has referred you to a prosthodontist, I would start by asking why.
What part of the case needs specialty-level planning?
Is it the number of teeth involved?
The bite?
The implant position?
Bone or tissue loss?
A history of failed dental work?
A complicated denture case?
A cosmetic goal combined with functional problems?
You want to understand what makes this case different from routine restorative care.
Monmouth County is large, so the right specialist may be in Red Bank, Freehold, the Shore towns or another part of the county.
For a complex treatment plan, I would care much more about the prosthodontist’s experience with my actual problem than whether the office is five minutes closer.
You may be making a lot of visits.
You also may be making a decision that affects your mouth for many years.
That makes the drive feel slightly less important.
If you are considering dental implants
“Dental implant” can describe a much bigger treatment process than people realize.
There is the implant itself.
There is the surgery.
There is the temporary tooth, if one is needed.
There is the final crown, bridge or full-arch restoration.
There may be bone or gum procedures depending on the site.
Different specialists may handle different pieces.
Ask who is responsible for the surgical placement and who designs and restores the teeth.
In some cases, the prosthodontist may coordinate closely with an oral surgeon or periodontist.
In others, the prosthodontist may provide more of the implant treatment directly.
The important thing is understanding the team and the sequence.
If you are dealing with multiple crowns, bridges or failing dental work
This is where I would be very interested in the plan before the drilling starts.
If several teeth need work, does it make sense to treat them independently?
Or is there a larger bite, spacing or wear problem connecting them?
What happens if you replace one crown now and discover six months later that the neighboring teeth are part of the same issue?
Complex restorative dentistry is often less about fixing the single tooth in front of you and more about understanding how everything works together.
That is the planning piece.
If dentures are the issue
Dentures are not one generic product.
A patient missing all teeth has different treatment choices from someone missing several teeth.
Traditional removable dentures, partial dentures and implant-supported options can all come into the conversation depending on the case.
Ask what the prosthodontist thinks will work for your mouth.
Ask about stability.
Maintenance.
Repairs.
Relines.
How the bite is established.
How long the process takes.
And what happens if the result does not feel right.
If the project is cosmetic
This is another area where language gets blurry.
A general or cosmetic dentist may provide veneers, crowns and other esthetic treatment.
A prosthodontist may become particularly relevant when the cosmetic goal overlaps with damaged teeth, missing teeth, implants, bite issues or a larger reconstruction.
If you are changing several teeth, I would want to understand the functional plan as clearly as the visual one.
You are going to smile at the result.
You also have to chew with it.
The Garden State Circle guide below is designed to help identify the actual specialists practicing in Monmouth County and compare the information they publish.
It is not ranking them.
Use it if you are searching for prosthodontists Monmouth County NJ, dental implant specialist Monmouth County, full-mouth reconstruction, complex restorative dentistry, dentures specialist, implant dentures, crowns and bridges, failed dental work, cosmetic restorative dentist, missing teeth replacement or prosthodontist second opinion.
For a major restorative plan, I would absolutely ask enough questions to understand the entire road before starting the first mile.
How many appointments?
How long does treatment take?
What happens in stages?
What is temporary?
What is final?
Which providers are involved?
What does maintenance look like after everything is finished?
And what is the alternative if you do less?
That is a lot of dentistry.
You deserve the whole plan.
We did the homework here.
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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: Prosthodontists in Monmouth County, NJ
How We Selected These Prosthodontists
This guide covers Monmouth County.
A practice is on this page when it has a prosthodontics office in Monmouth County and at least one named dentist whose New Jersey dental license the state register showed as Active on September 24, 2026, and who holds a prosthodontics specialty permit on that register at that office’s town, primary or branch, or a legacy specialty permit that the practice’s own words tie to prosthodontics. 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 — a prosthodontics office in the county named above and at least one named dentist with an Active New Jersey dental license and a prosthodontics specialty permit. 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.
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The Prosthodontists, Compared
| Practice and town | Specialist(s) named, and the permit as the register prints it, checked Sept 24, 2026 | Residency (as published) | Implants (as published) | New patients | Record checked (Sept 24, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph DiFazio, DMD, FACP West Long Branch | Joseph DiFazio, DMD, FACP — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center” | “Implants” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
| Advanced Dental Arts Red Bank | Eric M. Gordon, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “a two year specialty degree in Prosthodontics at the New York University School of Dentistry”; “a two year fellowship at New York University in Surgical and Implant Dentistry” | “dental implants” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
| Anthony Sallustio, DDS Ocean Township | Anthony Sallustio, DDS — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice) | “Prosthodontics – State University of New York at Buffalo”; “Maxillofacial Prosthetics & Dental Oncology – Roswell Park Cancer Institute” | “All-on-4® Treatment Concept”; “implant-supported dentures” | Appointment request | Sept 24, 2026 |
Checked against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Dentistry licensee search.
Permit status is what the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register showed on September 24, 2026, looked up by name. Record checked names the date we last checked that practice’s record ourselves.
The Practices
Joseph DiFazio, DMD, FACP, West Long Branch
107 Monmouth Road, Suite 101, West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Joseph DiFazio, DMD, FACP — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “As a Board-Certified Prosthodontist and Maxillofacial Prosthodontist”.
Advanced Dental Arts, Red Bank
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Eric M. Gordon, DMD — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “completed a two year specialty degree in Prosthodontics at the New York University School of Dentistry”.
Anthony Sallustio, DDS, Ocean Township
Named on the practice’s own site, with the register record as of Sept 24, 2026: Anthony Sallustio, DDS — Dentist license Active · Specialty permit Active (legacy type, discipline as published by the practice).
On the practice’s own site: “practicing prosthodontics and maxillofacial prosthetics in central New Jersey since 1996”.
Common Questions
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.
Verified
Verified means we checked identity, licence and published details - not service quality or results.Every detail on this page was checked on September 24, 2026 against each practice’s own website and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register.
Additional Resources
The same guide for other markets
- Prosthodontists in Somerset County, NJ
- Prosthodontists in Morris County, NJ
- Prosthodontists in Hunterdon County, NJ
NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license verification
Something out of date?
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This is not a ranking.