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Upper West Side · 40 West 86th Street

The specialist you see when your teeth need rebuilding — not just repairing.

Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz is a residency-trained prosthodontist — the dental specialist who replaces missing teeth and restores bites that have worn down, broken, or failed. He practices alongside his father, Dr. Steven Berkowitz, who has cared for Upper West Side families for more than thirty years.

Trusted for over 30 years

In-network with Delta Dental Premier, Aetna PPO & Guardian PPO

Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz, DMD, prosthodontist, wearing an American College of Prosthodontists coat

Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz, DMD — Prosthodontist

  • Residency-trained prosthodontist

    Three-year specialty residency, University of Michigan

  • Ten years a hospital attending

    Northport VA — complex cases, and training residents

  • Placed and restored in-house

    One surgeon, one dentist, one point of accountability

Specialty & Implant Care

Most people find us with a problem they have been living with for a while.

A tooth that finally gave out. A bridge that keeps coming loose. A denture that has never really fit. An implant, done somewhere else, that failed. These are the cases prosthodontists are trained for.

A treatment room at Upper West Side Dentist

Meet the Specialist

Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz, DMD

After dental school at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Berkowitz completed a hospital residency in general dentistry, then a three-year prosthodontic residency at the University of Michigan — one of the most respected specialty programs in the country — where he was named Chief Resident in his final year and taught at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. He then spent ten years as the attending prosthodontist at the Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center, training residents of his own.

That training is the difference between a dentist who can place an implant and a specialist who can plan an entire mouth. He both places and restores implants himself, which means one person is accountable for the outcome from the first scan to the final tooth — you are not handed between offices, and nobody is blaming anybody else if something needs adjusting.

  • Three-year prosthodontic residency, University of Michigan / Detroit Veterans Administration
  • Chief Resident, and instructor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, in his final year
  • Ten years as attending prosthodontist, Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center
  • Places and restores dental implants in-house
Read Dr. Jonathan's Full Background

Two Generations

The same practice, the same chair, the same block — now with a specialist in it.

Dr. Steven Berkowitz opened this practice on West 86th Street and has looked after Upper West Side families ever since — in many cases three generations of the same family. His approach has never changed: solve the problem in the most conservative way possible, and never propose treatment somebody does not need.

His son Jonathan trained for eleven years and spent a further decade as a hospital attending prosthodontist before joining him. Today they practice together. Longtime patients still see Dr. Steven for their cleanings and checkups. When something more complex is needed, the specialist is in the next room — not across town, and not a stranger.

It is an unusual arrangement, and it is the reason people who have been coming here for twenty years are comfortable having major work done here too.

Dr. Steven Berkowitz, DDS, at his Upper West Side dental practice
The reception area at Upper West Side Dentist, 40 West 86th Street

In Their Words

What our patients say

Some of the people below have been coming to this office for more than fifteen years.

Hands down best dentist in NYC. Have been going to him for the past 15 years.

Martin M. · via Google

Dr. Berkowitz and his staff are thorough, careful, and genuinely kind. I have never once felt rushed or oversold on treatment I did not need.

Gail D. · via Google

I had put off major dental work for years because I was afraid of it. They walked me through every step and it was nothing like what I had built up in my head.

Carlos D. · via Yelp

Visit Us

Half a block from Central Park.

The office is on West 86th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue — a short walk from the B and C at 86th Street, and the 1 at 86th and Broadway. The M86 crosstown bus stops at the corner. The suite is on the ground floor with street-level access and no stairs.

Address
40 West 86th Street, Suite 1C
New York, NY 10024
Telephone
212-874-1700
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Office Hours

Monday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Tuesday
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed

In-network insurance

Delta Dental Premier, Aetna PPO, Guardian PPO. We are happy to file out-of-network claims on your behalf with most other carriers.

Please confirm your insurance at the time of your appointment.

Insurance & payment details

Talk it through with a specialist.

Most people considering implants or major reconstruction have been thinking about it for a long time. A conversation costs nothing and there is never any pressure.

40 West 86th Street, Suite 1C · New York, NY 10024