Your Upper East Side Dental Specialists, Under One Roof

Patients have walked to this office for dental care close to home for more than two decades. That kind of continuity builds something you can feel: real relationships, unhurried conversations, and a team that already knows your history when you sit down.

Just like our medical counterparts, a dental specialist is a dentist who has completed additional years of training after dental school to focus on one area of dentistry. If you had a heart problem, would you see your internist or a cardiologist? Your internist is an excellent doctor for everyday health needs, but for a heart condition you'd want the expert who has dedicated their career to the heart. Dentistry works the same way. Your general dentist is your trusted partner for routine care, and a specialist is who you turn to when your needs call for more focused expertise.

There are only 12 dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association, and to be recognized as a specialist, a dentist must complete an accredited multi-year residency, pass rigorous evaluations, and limit their practice exclusively to that area of care. Many general dentists choose to focus their practice on a particular type of care, and that dedication is valuable, but focusing on an area of dentistry is not the same as being a recognized specialist. Because specialists have completed this additional formal training and practice in their one area all day, every day, rather than the full range of procedures a general dentist performs, they are the absolute experts in their field. When you see a specialist, you're getting someone who has devoted their career to getting that one area of care right.