Dentists in Perth Amboy, NJ: Local Guide

To find a good dentist in Perth Amboy, start with the numbers: the city lists 25 dental practices, 13 of them carrying enough patient feedback to be rated, and those rated offices average 4.28 stars. Sort by rating and review volume, confirm the specialty you need, and shortlist three to call.

Perth Amboy is a compact waterfront city at the tip of Middlesex County, where the Raritan River meets the Arthur Kill and Raritan Bay, and the Outerbridge Crossing carries traffic across to Staten Island. Its dental market is small enough that a handful of practices account for most of the reviews on file, which makes a data-first shortlist unusually effective here. This guide walks through what the 25 listed practices actually look like on rating, review depth, website coverage, and specialty availability, so you can move from a long list to a confident phone call.

What the Perth Amboy dental market looks like by the numbers

Of the 25 dental practices Dental.me tracks in Perth Amboy, 13 have accumulated enough feedback to earn a rating. Those 13 fall into four tiers: three sit at 4.8 stars or higher, five land between 4.5 and 4.79, three occupy the 4.0 to 4.49 middle, and two rate below 4.0. That spread is why the city-wide average of 4.28 is a useful floor rather than a target — a majority of rated offices clear it comfortably, and the shape of the distribution tells you where the strongest options cluster.

The 12 practices that are listed but not yet rated are the other half of the Perth Amboy picture. A missing rating here usually means an office has not gathered enough logged feedback to earn one, not that it should be ruled out — but it does leave you less to go on before a first visit, so those offices reward a longer phone conversation. For a first-time search in the city, the 13 rated practices are the natural starting pool, and the tier chart above shows that eight of those thirteen already sit at 4.5 stars or higher.

Reading a rating in a 25-practice market

Perth Amboy is small enough that a single number can mislead if you read it alone, which is exactly why the ranked table further down pairs two columns. The city’s average of 4.28 is pulled down slightly by the two sub-4.0 offices, so treating 4.28 as your pass mark already places you among the stronger practices in town. More telling is combining the star rating with the review count. A 4.7 resting on 736 logged reviews, as Abc Family Smiles LLC carries, describes a long and stable track record; a 4.6 resting on nine reviews, as Dr. Swati Gupta’s Raritan Bay Dental shows, is an early and still-forming signal. Neither is automatically better — but in a city where the two deepest files hold more than a thousand reviews between them, review depth becomes the tiebreaker that separates Perth Amboy offices whose star ratings otherwise look identical.

The Dental.me Score that orders these listings weighs a practice’s rating, its review volume, and whether the office has been confirmed, among other signals, so a thin-but-perfect score does not automatically leapfrog a deep and consistent one. That is why the six practices below are not simply the highest star ratings stacked in a row. The Score is earned from a practice’s own record and can never be bought; the only element that can be paid for anywhere on Dental.me is a Featured placement, which is labeled as such and changes neither the rating nor the ranking logic. For your search, the upshot is that the order you see already reflects both quality and evidence, and you can trust it as a starting shortlist rather than rebuilding it by hand.

The top-rated dentists in Perth Amboy right now

The table below ranks the six practices with the strongest profiles in the city, sorted by rating and then by review count. It is led by Maheen Kibria at 4.9 stars, with Abc Family Smiles LLC close behind and carrying by far the deepest review history in town. Every profile links straight to its Dental.me page so you can read the full record before you dial.

Read the ratings and the review counts as two separate signals. Maheen Kibria pairs the highest rating in Perth Amboy, 4.9, with a substantial 461 reviews — a combination that carries more weight than either number alone. Amboy Orthodontics, Dr. Swati Gupta, and Gloria Pou all rate well but sit on thinner review histories, which simply means fewer visits have been logged so far, not that the care is lesser. When you compare, weigh a 4.7 built on hundreds of reviews differently from a 4.6 built on nine.

Review depth: where Perth Amboy’s feedback is concentrated

Across the rated practices, Dental.me counts 1,840 reviews in Perth Amboy, and that total is heavily concentrated. Two offices — Abc Family Smiles LLC at 736 and Maheen Kibria at 461 — together hold well over half of all the feedback in the city. That concentration is worth knowing: for the busiest practices you can read dozens of recent, detailed accounts, while for the smaller offices a single strong or weak visit moves the average more.

Practically, this shapes how you weigh what you read. At the two deepest offices you can scroll through a large enough body of feedback that recurring themes — wait times, comfort with children, how a billing question was handled — become reliable rather than anecdotal. At an office with nine or twenty-two reviews, treat the star rating as a promising early read and lean harder on your own first appointment to confirm the fit. Both approaches are valid in Perth Amboy; the review-count column just tells you how much confidence the number already carries.

Website coverage and how to reach the offices

Of the 25 practices in Perth Amboy, 9 have a website URL on file with Dental.me and 16 do not. A missing website URL is a record-keeping detail, not a verdict on the office — several highly rated Perth Amboy practices reach patients mainly by phone and through their Dental.me profile. Practically, it means that for roughly two in three offices your fastest route to hours, insurance, and new-patient questions is a direct call rather than a site visit.

When you do call one of the 16 offices without a listed site, keep the conversation short and specific to Perth Amboy: confirm they are accepting new patients, that they take your dental plan, and how soon they can see you. Those three answers settle most of what a website would have told you, and they are the same questions worth asking even at the nine practices that do have a site, since posted hours and plan lists can lag behind what the front desk actually knows this week.

Specialties available in Perth Amboy

For a small city, Perth Amboy carries a healthy spread of specialty care. Dental.me tags six practices offering orthodontics and six offering Invisalign clear aligners, with five practices listing dental implant services. That overlap is common — an office that does braces often does aligners too — so if your need is orthodontic you have real choice locally rather than an automatic trip out of town. Amboy Orthodontics, in the top-rated table above, anchors the orthodontic side of that list.

Browse the full lists on the Perth Amboy orthodontists page, the Invisalign providers page, or the dental implant dentists page to see every practice in each category with its current rating. If your need is a routine cleaning, a filling, or a family checkup, note that specialty tags describe added services, not limits — most of the six top-rated offices above handle general dentistry alongside whatever specialty they list, so you rarely have to choose between a strong general dentist and the specific procedure you came in for.

How to choose, and where to look nearby

Put the pieces together in order. Start from the ranked table and pick two or three practices that clear the 4.28 city average and carry a review count you trust. Confirm the specialty you need on the relevant page above. Then call each shortlisted office to check that they take your insurance and have new-patient openings — the fastest way to settle those two questions for the many Perth Amboy practices without a website URL on file. The Perth Amboy dentist directory holds the complete list of all 25 practices if you want to widen the search beyond the top six.

Because Perth Amboy sits inside the dense Route 35 and Route 440 corridor, several neighboring directories are only minutes away and can broaden your options. Perth Amboy borders Woodbridge Township dentists to the west, and the nearby communities of Fords and Avenel fall within easy reach. A short drive further out you will also find listings in Parlin and Iselin. Comparing a Perth Amboy shortlist against one or two of these neighbors is a reasonable way to weigh a slightly longer drive against a higher-rated or more available office.

Whichever office you choose, let the record do the early work. In a market this size, the rating tiers, the review depth, and the specialty tags together narrow 25 practices to a serious shortlist of three or four before you make a single call — and that is the whole point of choosing from the data first.

Frequently asked questions

How many dentists are there in Perth Amboy, NJ?

Dental.me lists 25 dental practices in Perth Amboy. Of those, 13 have gathered enough patient feedback to carry a rating, and those rated offices average 4.28 stars across the city.

Which is the highest-rated dentist in Perth Amboy?

Maheen Kibria holds the top rating in Perth Amboy at 4.9 stars across 461 reviews. Abc Family Smiles LLC rates 4.7 and carries the deepest review history in the city at 736 reviews.

Does Perth Amboy have orthodontists and Invisalign providers?

Yes. Dental.me tags six Perth Amboy practices offering orthodontics and six offering Invisalign clear aligners, along with five practices that list dental implant services. Many offices offer more than one of these.

Why don't all Perth Amboy dental offices have a website?

Only 9 of the 25 practices have a website URL on file with Dental.me; 16 do not. A missing site is a record-keeping detail, not a verdict on the office, so call those practices directly for hours, insurance, and new-patient openings.

What counts as a good rating in Perth Amboy?

The city-wide average across rated offices is 4.28 stars, so an office at or above that already ranks among the stronger choices. Eight of the 13 rated Perth Amboy practices sit at 4.5 stars or higher.

Which nearby cities should I also check for a dentist?

Perth Amboy borders Woodbridge Township, with Fords and Avenel close by, plus Parlin and Iselin a short drive out. Comparing a Perth Amboy shortlist against one or two neighbors can widen your options.

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.