Dentists in Dumont, NJ: Local Guide

Finding a good dentist in Dumont, New Jersey starts with the numbers: the borough has 19 dental practices, 13 of them rated, carrying a 4.78 average across 2,242 reviews. This guide ranks the top-rated offices, maps which specialties are covered locally, and shows exactly how to compare them before you book.

What the numbers say about dentists in Dumont

Dumont is a small borough in Bergen County, tucked among the Pascack Valley towns of northern New Jersey and served by its own station on NJ Transit’s Pascack Valley Line. Its dental market is dense for its size. Nineteen practices operate within the borough footprint, and 13 of them carry enough patient feedback to hold a published rating. That rated group averages 4.78, which is unusually tight at the top: of the 13 rated offices, 11 sit at 4.8 or higher, one lands in the 4.5–4.79 band, none fall between 4.0 and 4.49, and a single practice rates below 4.0. In practical terms, the choice in Dumont is rarely between a good office and a bad one — it is between several strong ones, and the distribution below shows just how concentrated the quality is.

The six practices without a published rating are not necessarily weaker; they simply do not yet carry enough reviews on file to average a stable score, which is common for newer offices, smaller solo practices, or listings that have only recently been confirmed. When you scan the borough directory, treat those unrated entries as unknowns to investigate rather than options to skip — a short call can tell you what a missing rating cannot. For the 13 that are rated, though, the spread is the story: with 11 of them at 4.8 or above and only one below 4.0, the borough’s quality is bunched at the very top of the scale, so your comparison quickly becomes a question of fit, specialty, and location rather than a hunt for the one good office in town.

The highest-rated dental practices in Dumont

The table below ranks Dumont’s six most-reviewed and top-scoring offices by rating, breaking ties by review volume. Three practices hold a perfect 5.0, and the three behind them sit at 4.9 — a reminder that in a market this tight, review count is often the more useful tiebreaker than the star number alone. Click any practice to open its full Dental.me profile, where you can see the rating, the review count, and whether a website URL is on file.

A quick way to read the table: the three 5.0 offices — the Schneider and Jacobs group, Dream Dental Associates, and Jeffrey Manheimer — each hold between 136 and 161 reviews, a substantial and consistent body of feedback for a borough this size. The three 4.9 offices tell a slightly different story. Howard Perlmutter and Dental Excellence Group sit in the same 180–220 range, while Palisades Dental Care towers over the field at 1,157 reviews. When you are deciding between two offices whose ratings are essentially tied, the review count is the tiebreaker worth leaning on: it tells you how many patient visits stand behind that number, and a rating that barely moves across a thousand reviews is a different kind of evidence than one built on a few dozen.

How much feedback each office carries

Dumont’s 19 practices hold 2,242 reviews between them, but that volume is far from evenly spread. Palisades Dental Care alone accounts for 1,157 of those reviews — more than half the borough total and roughly five times the next-busiest office. The chart below plots the review counts for the six ranked practices so you can weigh each rating against the sample behind it. A 5.0 built on 136 reviews and a 4.9 built on 1,157 are both credible; they simply tell you different things about how much history you are reading.

Website coverage and booking in Dumont

Of the 19 practices in the borough, 11 have a website URL on file — a little under six in ten. For the remaining eight, you will not find a booking link in their listing, so a phone call is the direct route to reach the front desk. That is not a mark against those offices; it simply changes how you get started. When a website is listed, it usually carries hours, new-patient forms, and an online request form, which can shorten the first contact. The split below shows the coverage across the full borough directory.

If online booking matters to you, filter your shortlist to the 11 offices with a URL on file first, then confirm what you find by phone before your visit — listed hours and new-patient policies change, and a quick call closes the gap. If you are open to calling either way, the presence or absence of a website should not weigh heavily against a well-rated office; several of the borough’s top-scoring practices are reached most reliably by phone. What the coverage figure really tells you is how much of your legwork can happen on a screen versus over a call, and in Dumont it is close to an even split.

Specialty care available in Dumont

For a borough of its size, Dumont carries a broad spread of specialty coverage. Seven practices list cosmetic dentistry and seven offer teeth whitening, while six provide dental implants and six see pediatric patients. That means you can usually stay inside the borough for a specific need rather than driving out to a larger town. If you are weighing a bigger procedure, start with the specialty pages, which filter the full directory down to the offices that list that service.

You can browse each of these directly: cosmetic dentists in Dumont, dental implant providers in Dumont, and pediatric dentists in Dumont. Whitening is offered by seven of the borough’s offices, so a general cleaning visit is often the simplest way to add it. Because the specialty counts overlap heavily with the top-rated table, you can frequently satisfy a specialty need and a strong rating at the same office — a practical advantage of a market where quality is bunched at the top. For families in particular, six pediatric options inside a borough this compact is generous; it means a child’s dentist and a parent’s dentist can often be found on the same short list without leaving Dumont.

Nearby options in Bergen County

Dumont sits shoulder to shoulder with several Pascack Valley and Northern Valley towns, so if you cannot find the right fit or the right appointment window inside the borough, the surrounding directories are only minutes away. Bergenfield borders Dumont to the west and carries its own set of practices; Tenafly lies just east toward the Palisades; and Cresskill sits immediately north. Each hub applies the same rating and review data you see here, so comparisons stay consistent as you widen the search. Because these towns share the same Northern Valley and Pascack Valley footprint, an office one municipality over is often no farther than a practice on the other side of Dumont, which makes the neighboring directories a genuine extension of your local options rather than a fallback. If a specialty is thin on a given day or a preferred office has a long wait, checking Bergenfield, Tenafly, or Cresskill first — before driving to a larger regional center — keeps your search inside the same tight cluster of well-rated Bergen County practices.

Building your Dumont shortlist

A workable process in a borough like this one takes only a few minutes. Start with the ranked table and note the three or four offices closest to the rating and review balance you want — whether that is the highest possible star number or the deepest review history. Next, cross-check your specialty: if you need implants or a pediatric visit, keep only the offices that appear on the relevant specialty page, which narrows 19 practices down to six or seven. Then look at the website column; if online forms and hours matter, prioritize the 11 offices with a URL on file, and for the rest, plan on a call. Finally, factor in location within the borough and along the surrounding towns, since Dumont’s neighbors are close enough that a slightly better appointment window one town over can be worth the short trip. Working the list in that order — rating and reviews, then specialty, then contact method, then location — turns a crowded directory into a shortlist of two or three offices you can call the same afternoon.

How to choose, and how the Dental.me Score works

With a market this concentrated, the deciding factors in Dumont are usually practical rather than about rating alone: which office is closest, which lists the specialty you need, and how much review history you want behind your choice. Start from the ranked table, then open the full Dumont directory to see every practice, filter by specialty, and check which offices list a website. If a listing shows a website URL, use it to confirm hours and new-patient policies; if it does not, a call to the front desk is the fastest way to get those details.

The Dental.me Score you see on each profile is earned, never purchased. It weighs a practice’s rating, the volume of reviews behind that rating, whether the office’s details are confirmed, and other signals into a single, comparable number. The only thing money changes is Featured placement, which is labeled as such and does not move a practice’s Score or its position in the rating-sorted table above. That is why a high-volume office like Palisades and a smaller 5.0 practice can both rank near the top — the Score reflects the evidence on file, not who paid for visibility.

Frequently asked questions

How many dentists are there in Dumont, NJ?

Dumont’s directory lists 19 dental practices. Thirteen of them carry enough patient feedback to hold a published rating, and that rated group averages 4.78 across a combined 2,242 reviews on file.

Which Dumont dentist has the highest rating?

Three practices hold a perfect 5.0: Dumont Dentist (the Schneider and Jacobs group) with 161 reviews, Dream Dental Associates with 153, and Jeffrey Manheimer with 136. Review count is the useful tiebreaker among them.

Which Dumont practice has the most reviews?

Palisades Dental Care carries 1,157 reviews and a 4.9 rating, more than half of the borough’s 2,242 total reviews and roughly five times the next-busiest office in Dumont.

Do dentists in Dumont have websites?

Of the 19 practices, 11 have a website URL on file, a little under six in ten. For the other eight, no website URL is listed, so calling the office directly is the most reliable way to reach the front desk.

What dental specialties can I find in Dumont?

Coverage is broad for the borough’s size: seven practices list cosmetic dentistry, seven offer teeth whitening, six provide dental implants, and six see pediatric patients, so you can usually stay in Dumont for a specific need.

What is the Dental.me Score and can a practice pay for it?

The Score is earned, never purchased. It weighs a practice’s rating, review volume, whether office details are confirmed, and other signals into one comparable number. Only Featured placement can be paid for, and it is labeled and does not change a practice’s Score.

Dental.me organizes dental directory data so patients can compare offices with confidence. Use each practice profile and its available website, map, and phone details for current appointment, payment, and care decisions.