New Jersey

Donated Dental Services (DDS)

Services

• DDS volunteers provide comprehensive treatment to eligible patients
• Volunteers do not provide emergency services

Eligibility

Applicants must lack adequate income to pay for dental care and:

• Have a permanent disability, or
• Are elderly: age 65 or older, or
• Qualify as medically fragile

Due to lengthy wait lists applications are NOT being accepted in the following counties: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Mercer and Ocean.

If you have documentation from a physician stating that you cannot receive essential medical treatment due to your dental condition you can apply for the program even if your county is closed.

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Veterans

If you are a veteran who meets the qualifications above, please apply to the program by clicking the button below. Even if your county is closed, you may still apply.


VETERANS - APPLY HERE

Click here to download and print an application

Contact

Shanda Bell, DDS Coordinator
732.821.3056
732.821.3057 (fax)
sbell@DentalLifeline.org

Dental Lifeline Network • New Jersey
P.O. Box 2117
Edison, NJ 08818

All applications must be submitted through the DDS Coordinator

Donated Dental Services (DDS)

668

Volunteer Dentists in New Jersey

145

Volunteer Laboratories in New Jersey

$21.5M

in Donated Treatment to Patients in New Jersey

8,604

Treated patients since 1988

Volunteers Needed

Please volunteer! We need general dentists, specialists and labs willing to donate their skills and time, and the funding to make more treatment possible. More Information

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Board of Directors

  • Sidney Whitman, DDS
    President
  • Veronica Bikofsky, DMD
    Vice President
  • Paul J. Lawyer, DMD
    Secretary/Treasurer

Emeritus

  • John E. Feeney, DDS
  • Lewis Kay, DDS
  • Herbert Portnoff, DDS
  • Richard D. Riva, DDS
  • Beverly Roberts
  • Paul J. Smith, CDT
  • Justin Stone, DDS
  • Gerald A. Sydell, DDS
  • Anthony Volpe, DDS
  • Maxine Feinberg, DDS
  • Joel E. Leizer, DDS
  • Matt Safari, DDS
  • Jim Schulz
  • Nancy Villa, DMD
  • Mark Vitale, DMD

Sponsors & Funders

I hadn’t been to a dentist for 25 years. Dr. Vitale fixed me up and made me feel comfortable.

–Noah (left), a New Jersey DDS patient