Dr. Alan Rothstein, DDS, FACD, FICD

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Get to know Periodontist Dr. Alan Rothstein, who serves patients in Livingston, New Jersey. 

Keeping smiles healthy for a lifetime, Dr. Rothstein is an accomplished periodontist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of gum diseases and in the placement of dental implants. He is the Founder of A R Periodontics, PC in Livingston, New Jersey.

With experience and periodontal know-how, some of the treatments that he provides include: bone grafting, crown lengthening, gum grafting, scaling and root planing, cosmetic periodontal surgery, dental implant placement, and more. His patients are treated as individuals and offered customized plans to meet their unique needs.

In addition to maintaining a private practice, Dr. Rothstein serves as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor in Periodontics at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine and as an attending dentist at Morristown Medical Center.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, he graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1986. He then went on to obtain his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and his Certificate in Periodontology from the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine in 1990 and 1992, respectively. 

In good standing with a number of dental organizations, Dr. Rothstein is a member of the American Dental Association, the New Jersey Dental Association, the Essex County Dental Society, the Tri-County Dental Society, and the American Academy of Periodontology. 

Through his membership in the New Jersey Dental Association, he served as President of the Tri-County Dental Society, Trustee from TriCounty as well as served on numerous councils and committees. He served as Treasurer of the New Jersey Dental Association from 2012 – 2013 and as Chair of the Finance and Investments Committee. From May of 2018 until May of 2019, he was installed as the President of the New Jersey Dental Association, representing the interests of dentists and public awareness throughout the state.

Over the course of his three decade long professional career, Dr. Rothstein has been involved in many aspects of dentistry. Not only has he lectured and presented workshops, but he has been a consultant to Johnson & Johnson, and an advisory board member at Fortis Institute in both Wayne and Lawrenceville. He attributes his success to being a unique dentist and treating others as he would want to be treated.

Periodontics is the dental specialty focusing exclusively on the inflammatory disease that destroys the gums and other supporting structures around the teeth. A periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of periodontal, or disease, and in the placement of dental implants.

Every year since 2005, Dr. Rothstein has been selected as one of America’s Top Dentists, NJ Top Dentists since 2011, the Best of Morris and Essex since 2010, and to the International Association of Dentists (Leading Physicians of the World) since 2013. He was inducted as a Fellow of the International College of Dentists in 2016 and as a Fellow of the American College of Dentists in 2018; both of which are honor societies represented by only 10% of the dentists in the United States. 

On a more personal note, Dr. Rothstein’s favorite place to vacation is Palm Desert. His favorite professional publication is the Journal of the American Dental Association. He is the proud father of 3 wonderful children – his daughters, Ilana and Rachel, graduated from Syracuse University in 2018 & his son, Jonathan, is currently enrolled at Bergen County Community College.

Happily married, he and his wife, Diane, wed in August of 2018. They reside in Whippany with their cats, Tiger and Smokey. They enjoy scuba diving, traveling, photography, watching the New Jersey Devils hockey, as well as drinking good wine with good food. 

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