He attended the University of Rhode Island as an undergraduate, and the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dentistry. During the summer months, he worked as a vendor at Yankee and Shea Stadiums.
He graduated dental school in 1980 and got married that September. He worked for Public Dental Service in Brick and The Tooth Group in the Ocean County Mall until he opened his own practice in the Bellcrest Plaza on Fischer Blvd. in 1983.
On December 12, 2011, he and his staff moved into their current location at 557 Fischer Blvd., next door to Obco's Donuts. The practice was displaced for 7 weeks when Superstorm Sandy ripped through the office. After re-building, Dr. Merguerian was happy to return to his beautiful office.
We are located at 557 Fischer Blvd. in Toms River, NJ, between the Hot Tomato Restaurant and Obco's Donut Shop. It is one of our top priorities to protect the well-being of our valued patients. For this reason, our office meets and surpasses all OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and CDC (Center for Disease Control) standards. We are confident that you will feel right at home in our office as we welcome all patients as if they were family.
We do our best to determine your benefits ahead of time so that at the time of your visit, you do not have to pay the entire bill. You are only responsible for the deductible and co-pay at the time of treatment. As a courtesy for our patients, we will wait for the insurance company's payment after treatment is completed.
Every once in a while, the insurance plan changes after we have processed the benefits, or we get the wrong information from the insurance representative. Insurance companies will notify the patients or insured parties of changes, but they will not notify the provider's office. Therefore, we ask our patients to keep us informed of any changes in their insurance so there are no surprises.
We offer state-of-the-art handpiece and instrument autoclave sterilization at 250 degrees F. We utilize side delivery instrument trays so that the doctor does not have to reach for instruments over the patient.