Coast Dental Melbourne
Meet Your Melbourne Dentists

Coast Dental Managing Partner
Barbara Stefanczyk, DDS, is passionate about creating beautiful smiles and provides preventive, restorative, and cosmetic dental services including exams, fillings, crowns, bridges, dentures, bone grafting, dental implant restorations, extractions, root canal therapy, teeth whitening, and veneers. Plus, her office strives to accommodate same-day emergency dental appointments.

Dr. Stefanczyk provides general dentistry services to adults, teenagers, and children as young as six. She earned her doctor of dental surgery degree at New York University College of Dentistry in New York, NY. Her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology is from City University of New York, Queens College in Flushing, NY and she also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Tourism & Recreation from the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Stefanczyk is fluent in English and Polish. When she is not busy creating beautiful smiles, she enjoys horseback riding, golf, swimming, biking, and traveling.

Jason Sheikh DMD, MD received his training in oral and maxillofacial surgery in a six-year residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City; he then completed a fellowship in cleft and pediatric craniofacial surgery in Charleston, WV. Dr. Sheikh, a Florida native, grew up in Boca Raton. He graduated from Saint Andrew’s School and then attended the University of Miami for college. He then received his dental degree from the University of Pennsylvania and medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Sheikh brings to Coast Dental a broad experience in the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery, including treatment of impacted wisdom teeth, missing or abnormally positioned teeth, oral pathology, facial trauma, and jaw disharmony. His services include adult and pediatric sedation, extractions, bone grafting, dental implants, biopsies, and orthognathic surgery. Dr. Sheikh is licensed by the state of Florida in medicine and dentistry and holds a permit for in-office sedation.

Dr. Sheikh joined Coast Dental in July 2017 after returning home to the east coast of Florida with his wife Andrea and daughter Gianna to be closer to his family.

Dr. Lauren Lockhart enjoys watching her patients' self-confidence grow as their smiles improve. She offers a variety of services including braces and Invisalign to correct problems such as crowding, crossbite, open bite, protruding teeth, teeth that erupted in the wrong place, gaps between teeth, and jaw misalignment. Dr. Lockhart treats adults, teenagers, and children as young as seven, which is when the American Association of Orthodontists recommends children receive their first orthodontic consultation to spot any problems with jaw growth and emerging teeth.

Dr. Lockhart earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Meharry Medical School of Dentistry in Nashville, TN, and completed a residency in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL.

She is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists, American Dental Association, and American Association of Women Dentists.