Dentists in Westwood, NJ: Local Guide

Quick answer: Westwood, NJ has 42 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 24 are rated on Google, averaging 4.71★ across 1,496 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Golub Pediatric Dentistry, Karin Forrester, Emerson Orthodontics LLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Westwood is a small borough with a highly rated dental field. Across the 42 practices we track in this Pascack Valley borough, 24 have a Google rating in our data — and of those, 19 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. That is a dense top tier, yet the whole town has logged just 1,496 Google reviews between them. Read those two numbers together and Westwood’s dental market tells a clear story: these are practices with modest review counts, not heavily reviewed clinics. The largest review count in town is 235, and 11 of the 19 listings at 4.8 or higher rest on fewer than 50 reviews, so a high star rating here often rests on a modest sample.

This guide is built to help you find the right one. Everything below comes from data on our Westwood dentist directory — ratings, review volumes, and specialty coverage — with no invented names or numbers. Let’s start with the shape of the market.

What the numbers show

Only 20 of the 42 practices have a website on file, and 24 have a Google rating in our data. Dental.me does not record whether those listings are still active, so call before ruling one out. A gap is not a verdict. In this borough, a missing website or thin review count says nothing about the care. The 4.71 town-wide average includes two listings below 4.0, a 3.4 on five reviews and a 3.0 on two; the other 22 rated listings average 4.85. Weighted by review count, all 24 average 4.91, because the two listings below 4.0 rest on seven reviews between them. One new 1-star review would leave Karin Forrester’s 4.9 on 235 at 4.9, and would take Deborah E Karp Dental’s 5.0 on one review to 3.0. Posted weekly hours are stored for 21 of the 42 listings.

Here is how every rated office in town distributes across the rating bands:

That top bar is the headline. When 79% of rated offices cluster at 4.8 and above, a star rating alone stops separating offices — nearly everyone clears the bar. In a town like this, the smarter questions are who has the depth of reviews to back the score up, and who actually does the procedure you need. So let’s name names.

It’s worth pausing on what that lopsided distribution means for you as a new patient. Westwood’s 4.71 sits below the 4.8-plus level where most rated listings are because the five listings under 4.8, two of them below 4.0, pull it down. The average is a mix artifact, not a description of the typical office. And a star rating does not tell you whether an office does the implant, the pediatric sedation, or the clear-aligner case you actually came for.

The offices with the deepest review counts

Two practices lead the town on review volume. Karin Forrester holds a 4.9 across 235 reviews — the largest review count of any Westwood listing — and Emerson Orthodontics LLC matches that 4.9 over 228 reviews. For families, Golub Pediatric Dentistry shows a 5.0 across 183 reviews, the largest review count among Westwood’s 5.0 listings.

The next three by review count: Starry Dental – Westwood carries a 4.9 over 157 reviews, Robert Rosenfeld a 4.9 across 133, and Galitsis & Bovino a perfect 5.0 over 117. Notice the pattern: none of these is a 900-review megaclinic. They are lighter-reviewed offices. A phone number is on file for all 42, and they give 38 distinct numbers. Galitsis & Bovino (5.0 on 117) shares its phone and 345 Kinderkamack Rd #D with an unrated Galitsis Paul w DDS record, and an unrated Dr. Laurie A. Bovino, DMD record lists the same website. SUNFLOWER DENTAL GROUP OF WESTWOOD PC (4.5 on 41) shares a phone with an unrated SAUL DENTAL GROUP, PC record, De Robertis Nicholas DDS (3.4 on 5) shares one with an unrated pascack valley dental study club record, and two unrated records, Westwood Cosmetic & Prosthetic and Lynch Patricia DDS, share one. Check the profile before you treat two names as two offices.

A word on how to read those 5.0s versus the 4.9s. A 5.0 across 117 or 183 reviews and a 4.9 across 235 are both high ratings — the larger sample is simply averaged over more ratings. Neither is strictly “better;” they answer slightly different questions. If you want the rating averaged over the most reviews, weight the review count. If you’re after a specialist for a single defined procedure, a high rating on a smaller sample from the right specialty office can matter more than raw volume. Dental.me holds no review dates, so how long a rating took to build is a question for the office.

What Westwood’s listings cover

Rating aside, the practical question is whether the treatment you need is available in town, or whether you’ll be driving to Hackensack for it. Westwood’s specialty coverage skews in a very specific direction — toward implants, orthodontics, and family care.

The single most-available service is dental implants, listed by 12 of the borough’s practices — worth knowing if you’re weighing a permanent replacement over a bridge or partial. Orthodontics is next: eight orthodontic providers and eight Invisalign providers give teens and adults several listings to compare. Pediatric dentistry and cosmetic work are each listed by seven offices. Even the harder-to-find services hold a floor of five: emergency care, periodontics, and dentures each have five listings in the borough.

How to actually choose, given all this

Because raw star ratings won’t separate the field here, use a sequence that does. Work it in this order:

Step one, match the service, does real work in Westwood, because coverage is uneven — twelve implant offices but only five each for dentures, perio, and emergencies. Step two, weigh review depth, is the real differentiator here: with so many offices tied at 4.8–5.0, the practice with 235 Google reviews rests on far more reviews than the one with a dozen. Step three matters because 22 of the 42 practices have no website on file — a site with clear hours and an insurance list saves you a phone call before you book. Step four is universal: in New Jersey, always ask for the out-of-pocket number before you sit in the chair. 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.

If Westwood doesn’t have your match

Westwood sits in Bergen County’s Pascack Valley, with neighboring towns close by. If your service is one of the thinner categories here, or you simply want to compare, our neighboring directories are worth a look: Emerson and River Vale border the borough directly, while Hillsdale, Oradell, Township of Washington, and Harrington Park are all a short drive out. Together those six list 67 practices, 36 of them rated: Oradell 23 (14 rated), Emerson 18 (11), River Vale 14 (7), Township of Washington 7 (2), Hillsdale 3 (2) and Harrington Park 2 (none rated).

When you’re ready, the fastest path is the full Westwood dentist directory — open the page for your specialty, compare the ratings, and go straight to the office that fits. The hub runs over three pages, and its first cards are marked Featured and sit outside Score order. When this guide was checked they were Sonia Francioni-Vulaj (4.0 on 4; tied 21st of the 24 rated by Score), SALVATORE J CARCARA DMD MS PC (4.0 on 4; tied 21st), PHILIP F. BARONE DDS & ASSOC PA (5.0 on 6; tied 17th) and Twinkle Little Star Pediatric Dentistry, LLC (5.0 on 7; 16th). Featured marks a placement, not a Score result. Curious how we score these practices in the first place? Our ranking methodology explains how each practice’s Score is built; the star ratings themselves come from Google.

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