Dentists in Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Local Guide

Quick answer: Englewood Cliffs, NJ has 56 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 38 are rated on Google, averaging 4.69★ across 1,220 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Elizabeth Mitrani, Hudson Dental Edge – Englewood Cliffs, 201 Smiles LLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Englewood Cliffs is barely two square miles of Palisades bluff, yet Dental.me tracks 56 dental practices inside its borders. That number tells you less about the roughly 5,000 people who sleep here and far more about who commutes in: this is a corporate-headquarters borough perched over the George Washington Bridge, and its dentistry footprint is built for a daytime population, not a residential one. If you are trying to find the best dentist in Englewood Cliffs, the first thing to understand is that you are shopping in a small, dense, professional-grade market where the usual signals — thousands of Google reviews, a slick website for every office — mostly do not exist.

Consider the quietest statistic in the whole dataset: across the 38 practices that carry any rating at all, Dental.me has logged just 1,220 published reviews combined. A single busy suburban family practice in a commuter town can post that many on its own. Englewood Cliffs does not work that way. Its rated offices are specialist-heavy and average roughly 32 reviews apiece. Thin review counts here are not a red flag — but they are not a recommendation either. They mean there is less evidence to read, so more of the checking falls back on you.

That texture changes how you should read every other number on this page. In a high-volume town, a practice with 30 reviews looks like a rounding error next to one with 800, and you can lean on the crowd to do your filtering. In Englewood Cliffs, 30 reviews might be one of the larger samples in its category, and the “crowd” is small enough that a single unusually loud experience — good or bad — can visibly move an average. The upshot is that you cannot outsource the decision to review count alone the way you might elsewhere. You have to read the market on its own terms, which is precisely what the rest of this guide is built to do.

Why this market rewards a directory more than a Google search

Look again at that last tile. Only 23 of the 56 practices — fewer than half — maintain a working website. In most towns that would be a scandal; here it is a natural consequence of a market full of solo specialists and long-established practitioners who never needed one. The practical effect for you, the patient, is severe: a plain Google search will surface the same three or four offices that happen to have invested in SEO, and it will bury a dozen excellent practices that simply never built a web presence. The office with the highest rating in this borough might be invisible on the first page of a search engine. That is the exact gap a curated index like the Englewood Cliffs directory is built to close — it ranks every practice on the same footing, website or not.

Quality is concentrated, not scattered

Small and quiet does not mean uneven. When you sort the 38 rated practices by score, the distribution is startlingly top-heavy: 28 of them — nearly three in four — hold a rating of 4.8 stars or higher. The middle of the bell curve barely exists. There is a small cluster in the 4.0–4.49 range and a couple of genuine laggards below four stars, but almost everything else lives at the very top. In a market this size, that means your real decision is rarely “who is good?” — most of them are — and almost always “which excellent practice fits what I actually need?”

The practices setting the ceiling

A handful of offices define what “good” looks like in Englewood Cliffs. Leading the borough on reputation is Elizabeth Mitrani, who carries a perfect 5.0 across 288 reviews — by a wide margin the deepest review base in town, and a rare thing in a market this quiet. Close behind on sentiment is Hudson Dental Edge, also a clean 5.0 across 125 reviews, and 201 Smiles LLC at 5.0 over 86 reviews.

If your need is surgical rather than general, Premier Oral Surgery Group PC holds a 4.9 across 105 reviews — the strongest specialty review base in the borough. Rounding out the top tier, Ki Young Kim sits at 4.8 over 44 reviews and Bright Dental & Facial Center at a perfect 5.0 across 35. Notice the pattern: the scores are almost interchangeable at the top, so the review counts — how many people are standing behind that score — become the real tiebreaker in a low-volume market like this one.

What the borough is actually equipped to do

For a two-square-mile footprint, the specialty coverage is broad but shallow — you can get most things done locally, but rarely with a deep bench to choose from. Cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening are the most available services, each offered by nine practices, which fits a professional, image-conscious clientele. Dental implants follow at eight offices. Pediatric dentistry and periodontics are the thinnest options at five practices apiece — present, but a market where you should compare carefully rather than assume abundance.

A method for choosing, tuned to this borough

Because nearly everyone here scores well, the standard advice — “pick the highest rating” — is close to useless. The score alone will not separate 28 practices. Use a sequence instead, weighted for a small, low-review, half-of-them-have-no-website market:

That last point deserves emphasis. Englewood Cliffs sits in one of the more expensive corners of Bergen County, and it is tempting to assume that a premium ZIP code guarantees premium care. It does not. No price data is collected for individual practices here, which is exactly why comparing on published ratings and review depth — rather than on the neighborhood — is the smarter play. If you want a baseline before you call, our national guide to dental costs lays out what common procedures typically run so you can spot an outlier quote.

Willing to cross the border?

Englewood Cliffs bleeds seamlessly into its neighbors, and for many procedures the smart move is to widen the net by a mile or two. Its immediate neighbor Englewood carries a much larger and busier dental market, and Fort Lee, hard against the GWB, is denser still. To the north and east, Leonia, Teaneck, Edgewater along the river, and Palisades Park all sit within a short drive and each has its own roster of top-rated offices. For a genuinely specialized procedure, treating these towns as one connected market — rather than stopping at the borough line — gives you a far deeper bench to choose from.

The logic is straightforward. Englewood Cliffs offers five pediatric practices and five periodontists; step one town over and those counts multiply. If you need routine or cosmetic work, staying local is easy and the quality is there. If you need something rarer — a specific implant system, a pediatric office with weekend hours, a periodontist your regular dentist referred by name — the extra mile of driving buys you real choice. The border here is administrative, not clinical, and the best patients treat it that way.

The bottom line for Englewood Cliffs: this is a small, high-grade, low-visibility market where the best practice for you is often not the one that ranks first on Google. Start from your specific need, weigh review depth over the raw star, and use the full Englewood Cliffs directory to see every practice — the website-less included — side by side. Curious how we score and order them? Our ranking methodology explains exactly what goes into each placement.

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.