Dentists in Lakewood, NJ: Local Guide

Quick answer: Lakewood, NJ has 59 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 36 are rated on Google, averaging 4.57★ across 2,440 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Shimon Goldstein, Parkway 70 Dental Center, PA, Shore Oral Maxillo Surgery Group PA. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Lakewood is not an average dental market, and the numbers say so before any dentist does. Across the township we track 59 dental practices, and the specialty mix leans unmistakably young: 12 orthodontists, 12 Invisalign providers, and 9 pediatric offices outnumber every other category. In most towns of this size, general and cosmetic care dominate the roster. In Lakewood, braces and children’s chairs do. That single fact tells you what kind of place this is dentally, a town organized around large, growing families, where the first dental question a household asks is usually about a nine-year-old, not a crown.

This guide reads Lakewood’s market the way a careful patient would, through its real data rather than a generic checklist. We rate 36 of the 59 practices (the rest are too new or too quiet to rank fairly), and those 36 carry a combined 2,440 Google reviews at an average rating of 4.57 out of 5. That is a solid town-wide average, but it hides a wide spread that makes your choice matter more here than in most places. Start with the shape of the market.

One number worth sitting with is that review total. Spread across 36 rated offices, 2,440 reviews works out to an average of roughly 68 reviews per practice, a moderate depth that tells you Lakewood patients do leave feedback, but not in the overwhelming volumes you see in a big-box suburban market. In practical terms, it means the signal is trustworthy at the top of the list, where the leading offices have gathered hundreds of reviews apiece, and thinner at the bottom, where a single unhappy visit can move a rating. Weight that reality as you read. The busiest, most-reviewed practices in town are the ones whose scores you can lean on hardest.

Read the rating spread before you read the reviews

Lakewood’s 4.57 average is genuinely good, but averages flatten the thing you most need to see. Of the 36 rated practices, 21 sit at 4.8 or higher, the tier we consider excellent. Another 3 land in the strong 4.5–4.79 range. But 6 practices fall between 4.0 and 4.49, and another 6 sit below 4.0. That bottom third is larger than you will find in comparable New Jersey towns, which means the difference between a top office and a weak one is real and worth the ten minutes it takes to check. Picking blind here is a genuine gamble; picking informed is easy.

The offices with the highest Google ratings

When you weigh both rating and review volume, a clear top tier emerges from Lakewood’s data. These are the practices with the deepest track records on the Lakewood directory, and every one of them earns its place on Google reviews rather than advertising. Notice how they cluster: several are general and family practices, one is a dedicated oral surgery group, and one is an orthodontic specialist, a lineup that mirrors exactly what the town’s specialty numbers predicted. Reading the leaders alongside the market shape is the fastest way to understand where Lakewood is strong.

• Shimon Goldstein — a perfect 5.0 across 376 reviews, the most-reviewed five-star office in town and the closest thing Lakewood has to a consensus first choice.
• Shore Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Group PA — 4.9 over 241 reviews; the town’s anchor for extractions, wisdom teeth, and surgical implant placement.
• Parkway 70 Dental Center, PA — a clean 5.0 over 221 reviews, a high-volume general practice with a spotless record.
• Joseph A. Oleske III, DDS, P.C. — 4.9 across 213 reviews, a long-standing family-dentistry name.
• Steven Bresler Dental LLC — 4.9 over 122 reviews, consistently strong on comfort and communication.
• Mosery Orthodontics — a perfect 5.0; smaller review count at 42, but a specialist worth knowing in a town this braces-heavy.

What Lakewood is actually built to treat

Return to the opening point, because it shapes how you should search. Lakewood’s specialty roster is dominated by care for the young. Orthodontics and Invisalign are tied for the deepest bench in town, and pediatric dentistry is close behind. If you are a parent, you have unusual choice here; if you are an adult seeking a periodontist or an implant surgeon, the field is thinner and worth vetting more carefully.

Practically, that means your search should start from your need, not from a map. Parents can compare the town’s orthodontists and pediatric dentists as their own shortlists. Adults weighing clear aligners have a dozen Invisalign providers to choose from, and anyone facing tooth replacement can filter straight to implant dentists rather than scrolling through general listings.

The flip side is worth naming plainly. Adult and surgical categories run leaner in Lakewood. Implant dentistry (7 offices), cosmetic work (6), and periodontics (5) each have a real but shallow bench, so if you need gum surgery, a full-mouth reconstruction, or complex cosmetic work, you should vet more carefully and be readier to consider a specialist in a neighboring town. The town’s clear strength is oral surgery, anchored by Shore Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Group, whose 241 reviews make it the obvious referral point for extractions and surgical implant placement. For everything else on the adult side, treat depth as the thing to check first.

Cost is the other question every new patient asks, and it varies more by procedure than by which side of town you choose. Dental.me does not publish prices, and our national guide to dental costs gives no price ranges either; it lists what a quote depends on (the procedure, exam findings, insurance and materials), so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate.

A simple way to choose in a split market

Because Lakewood’s quality gap is wide, a short filter saves you from the bottom third. Work it in order.

Step three deserves a note. A perfect 5.0 built on a handful of reviews is thinner evidence than a 4.9 built on hundreds. That is why an office like Shimon Goldstein, at 5.0 across 376 reviews, is such a strong signal, and why a specialist with fewer reviews still deserves a phone call rather than an automatic pass. If you want to understand how we build these rankings, our ranking methodology lays out exactly what counts and what does not.

Looking just beyond the township line

Lakewood sits in a dense corner of Ocean and Monmouth counties, so a strong dentist is rarely more than a few minutes away even if the right specialist happens to sit in the next town. That geography is a quiet advantage: when the town’s leaner categories, periodontics or complex cosmetics, do not have the exact match you want, the surrounding boroughs almost always do, without adding a meaningful commute. If your shortlist comes up short, widen it to nearby Howell, Brick, Bricktown, Jackson, Farmingdale, or Point Pleasant Boro — each is close enough for a routine six-month recall.

Whatever you need, start from the data rather than the first ad you see. Browse the full, continually updated roster on the Lakewood dentist directory, filter to your specialty, and let 2,440 real Google reviews narrow 59 practices down to the two or three worth your call.

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