Arpan Nalin Patel
Awards
Bucks County Courier Times Best of the Best Awards
2024 - Best Dentist in Bucks County
Reader voted recognition naming Arpan Nalin Patel, D.M.D., Best Dentist in Bucks County. Patel has practiced in lower Bucks County since earning his D.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2004, and owns Alpha Dental Excellence in Langhorne, where his clinical focus is full arch implant supported reconstruction and sedation dentistry for adults with significant dental anxiety. He won this category for eight consecutive years, 2017 through 2024.
Bucks County Courier Times Best of the Best Awards
2024 - Best Dental Office in Bucks County
Reader voted recognition naming Alpha Dental Excellence Best Dental Office in Bucks County. The practice runs 23 chairs at a single address on Middletown Boulevard in Langhorne, housing general, cosmetic, restorative, implant, and sedation dentistry under one roof so patients whose treatment plans cross several specialties can complete most of the work in the same building. The office won this category for eight consecutive years, 2017 through 2024.
Bucks County Courier Times Best of the Best Awards
2020 - Best Leadership
One of seven categories Alpha Dental Excellence and Arpan Nalin Patel, D.M.D., won in the 2020 reader vote, alongside Best Boss and Best Overall Company to Work for. Patel trains the doctors at the practice to follow what he calls the four minute rule, spending the first four minutes of an appointment learning about the person in the chair before raising the subject of their teeth, a principle he learned from his father, Dr. Nalin Patel, D.M.D.
Bucks County Courier Times Best of the Best Awards
2020 - Best Workplace Culture
Awarded in the same 2020 reader vote that recognized Alpha Dental Excellence across seven categories. Patel looks for potential in associates, hygienists, and treatment coordinators, then hands them real responsibility while they are still growing into it, an approach he traces to his father giving him difficult cases from the start of his own career rather than easing him in with simple work.
Bucks County Courier Times Best of the Best Awards
2020 - Best Walk-in Urgent Care
Recognized in the 2020 reader vote for emergency and urgent dental care. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alpha Dental Excellence kept treating urgent cases while many offices across Bucks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties were closed or running limited hours, with patients driving four or five hours from New Jersey and western Pennsylvania to be seen. Patel credited his management team and staff.