Dentists in Newark, NJ: Local Guide

Quick answer: Newark, NJ has 173 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 53 are rated on Google, averaging 4.34★ across 18,433 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: All State Dental LLC, Newark Dental Spa LLC, LQ Dental. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Newark has no shortage of dentists. Across the city we count 173 dental practices. But raw count is the wrong number to shop on. Only 53 of those 173 practices carry a public rating, and only 43 maintain a website. That means roughly seven of every ten Newark practices leave a patient with almost nothing to judge them by online. The task here isn’t finding a dentist. It’s separating the 53 you can actually vet from the 120 you can’t.

That gap is the single most useful fact about the Newark dental market, so we’ll start there and build the whole guide around it. The good news: the practices that do show up publicly show up loudly. Those 53 rated offices have collected 18,433 Google reviews between them — an average of about 348 reviews per practice. When a Newark dentist is visible, they tend to be very visible, which makes the rated tier easy to research once you find it.

Read the ratings, not the count

Newark’s citywide average rating is 4.34 — a full step below the polished 4.7+ suburbs that ring it. That average is real and it’s worth understanding rather than glossing over: it’s dragged down by a wide spread of ratings. Of the 53 rated practices, 10 sit below 4.0 stars and another 9 land in the middling 4.0–4.49 range. That’s more than a third of the visible market you’d probably skip. But the top of the market is highly rated: 19 practices hold 4.8 stars or higher, and another 15 sit in the strong 4.5–4.79 band. Add those together and 34 of 53 rated practices — 64% — clear 4.5 stars.

The practical takeaway is that in Newark, the rating filter does real work. In a town averaging 4.34, choosing to only book above 4.5 isn’t fussy — it’s the difference between the top third and the bottom third. Sort ruthlessly. And pair the star rating with the review count: a 5.0 built on a dozen reviews tells you far less than a 4.9 built on several hundred. The strongest signal in Newark is the practice with a high rating across thousands of reviews — that combination is hard to accumulate and rare enough to shortlist on its own.

It also pays to be clear about the 120 offices with no rating. Dental.me does not record why these offices have no rating or website on file. Absence of a rating isn’t proof of poor care — but for a patient making a first appointment, an unrated, website-less office means booking blind, and in a city with 34 high-rated, well-reviewed practices there’s rarely a reason to.

Newark is a surgical and restorative town

Here’s where Newark’s specialty counts stand out. This is a market built for real dentistry — the complex, the surgical, the things that actually hurt. The city fields 39 practices offering dental implants, its single deepest specialty, alongside 21 oral surgeons and 21 endodontists for root canals. That’s a strong bench of surgical and restorative care.

By contrast, the cosmetic side is comparatively thin: just 14 cosmetic dentists and 15 offering teeth whitening. That’s not a knock — it’s a fingerprint. If you need veneers or a smile makeover you’ll have solid options but should shortlist carefully; if you need an implant, a wisdom-tooth extraction, or a root canal, Newark’s specialist lists are the place to start. Orthodontics is well covered too, with 22 orthodontists, so families and adults straightening teeth have room to compare.

Why does a working-city market skew this way? Newark’s listings cover the procedures people can’t put off — the abscessed tooth, the failing molar, the implant that restores a bite. Those are needs, not wants, and the supply has grown to meet them. Elective cosmetic work, by contrast, tends to concentrate in wealthier suburbs, which is exactly the pattern the numbers show. For you as a patient it means one thing: identify whether your need is clinical or cosmetic first, because Newark is demonstrably stronger at the former, and let that steer which specialty page you start from.

The names with Newark’s strongest review records

When you strip the market down to the top-rated, heavily-reviewed tier, a handful of practices stand out — and they carry the review volume to back the stars up. Start your shortlist here:

• All State Dental LLC — 4.9 stars across 755 reviews, the most-reviewed practice in the rated tier and a reliable general-dentistry anchor.
• Newark Dental Spa LLC — a perfect 5.0 rating over 250 reviews, for patients who want a calmer, comfort-forward chair.
• A&C Dental Concepts LLC — 4.9 stars, 170 reviews; a high rating on a mid-size sample.
• Jorge E. Vallejo, D.M.D. & Kathleen Gilmore, D.M.D. — 4.9 stars, 167 reviews.
• Yuliya Khodak — 4.9 stars, 160 reviews.
• LQ Dental — a clean 5.0 across 153 reviews.

You can see the full, continuously-updated ranking of every practice on the Newark dentist hub, where each office is scored on rating, review depth, and compiled details.

How to choose, Newark-style

Because so much of this market has no website on file, the ordinary advice (“just read the reviews”) only gets you to the 53 practices that have reviews. Here’s the sequence that actually works in a low-signal, high-density city like Newark:

Run those four filters and Newark’s overwhelming 173 collapses to a manageable handful of practices you can book with confidence. If cost is part of the decision, ask each Newark office for a written, itemised estimate for implants, crowns or root canals (our national dental cost guide publishes no prices, but it lists what a quote depends on) — and our ranking methodology lays out how each practice earns its score.

Care beyond the city line

Newark sits at the center of a tight cluster of Essex and Hudson County towns, so if the right specialist isn’t in the city itself, the next option is often minutes away. Worth checking: Harrison and Kearny just across the Passaic, plus East Orange, Irvington, Belleville, and Hillside on Newark’s other borders. Between them and Newark’s own bench, you’re rarely more than a short drive from a rated chair.

Newark dentist FAQ

How many dentists are in Newark? There are 173 dental practices in the city, but only 53 carry public ratings — so your realistic shortlist starts from that rated group, not the full count.

What’s the best-reviewed dentist in Newark? By review volume in the top tier, All State Dental LLC leads with 4.9 stars across 755 reviews. Several others hold perfect 5.0 ratings, including Newark Dental Spa and LQ Dental.

Is it hard to find a good dentist in Newark? Not once you filter correctly. Because 64% of rated practices clear 4.5 stars, the quality is there — the challenge is that only 25% of practices maintain a website, so many good offices are simply hard to research. Start from the Newark hub, which surfaces the rated ones.

Does Newark have good implant and oral-surgery options? Yes. The city has 39 practices offering dental implants, 21 oral surgeons, and 21 endodontists, so complex and surgical care is well represented in the listings.

What pulls Newark’s average rating down? The 4.34 citywide average reflects a real spread: 10 rated practices sit below 4.0 stars. But the top of the market rates highly, with 19 practices at 4.8 or higher. Sorting by rating separates the two cleanly.

What if I can’t find a specialist in Newark itself? Neighboring Harrison, Kearny, and East Orange are all minutes away and add more rated options for whatever service you need.

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