Dr. Angela Phuong is what is says on her window. Also, It does not say Caltex Dental in this strip…read morecenter but it just has a sign in big white letters stating: DENTIST. I was late but her Mexican medical assistant called me on the phone and was so sweet after I said I'd be there in 10 min.
A Mexican dental assistant was taking my blood pressure told me it was a good 119 over 89. I was relieved. Then, Dr. Angela came and started performing my dental work. I am then injected with something and numbed so I do not feel much during the procedure. The dental assistant temporarily puts this instrument in my mouth to suck up the spit and then puts this block to hold my teeth open while Dr. Angela does dental work.
So, Dr. Angela was wearing a Covid-19 mask and so was the dental assistant. Great! Dr. Angela had dental instruments in my mouth to work on my mouth while saying things. It started when the medical assistant came from the front to say; Dr. Angela, the Tamales are here. Dr. Angela stops working but the dental tools are still in my mouth. The medical assistant asks Dr. Angela if she wants; chicken Tamales, beef Tamales, cheese Tamales, or maybe pork Tamales. Dr. Angela stopped. Her frail body had to think. She took a deep breath and at first said: Ohh, not today. Then she removes the dental tools from my mouth to think some more. The medical assistant talks more about these important Tamales. Then, Dr, Angela said that yes, she did want Tamales but sighs and exhales. She wants, pork Tamales. It's good she decided on what she wanted for lunch. The medical assistant did not mention: nachos, enchiladas, fajitas, chili con queso, quesadillas, beans and rice, tacos, mole, salsa, or even.... Tacos! But Dr. Angela really did want Tamales after all. Now was the next part, the medical assistant and Dr. Angela was trying to decide how to pay. Frail and hardworking Dr. Angela finally settled on: Zelle so she said she could pay the money today.
Then, she sighs, looks at me and her eyes are smiling and she laughs and says; Sorry and puts the dental instruments back in my mouth to go on with the dental work. She talks to the silent dental assistant saying: Dental school is the most expensive of all. The medical. Schools. Someone I know when to dental school.
She then spouts out the name of Ivy League school that everyone always says. She says: someone I know went to the Ivy League dental school and owes so much money. He took out. $600,000 to $800,000 to pay for this Ivy League school. He owes almost a million! He makes like a $1,000 a day but he still can't pay then and is struggling.
While drilling in my teeth and with the spotlight on my face and the other dental instruments in my mouth, she goes on and says: My parents had no money. My parents did not have any money to pay for school I could not pay for all that. At those school. I can't believe. All my education for dental school and schools was free!$
She also says: my friend relative is going to school for computer science. She go to school for marketing. She should go to school fo business or marketing or political science because she is so social. Oooh, he gets paid very good.
She use to have her degrees on the wall some where so I do know she went to the University of California schools. She went to the hard and popular ones. She is proud.
If you are a big money bags person that provides scholarships for individuals like this, then this is the result. I have no comments or opinions on this because I did not pay for this person or persons like this from Vietnam or the Asian countries. Also, I made the choice to go to this dentist for dental work.
This has never happened to me before. Plus I know people who work and went to college down near the border in the pricey medical field, and are actually of Mexican decent, but they have not talked about enchiladas and tacos or even Tamales... yet.
With a smile, gasps and happily laughs to the dental assistant and says: We are talking a lot. We talk too much.
She looks at my teeth with shock-glee and the dental assistant and says: it look good. It looked like nothing happened.
But why I'm posting this review of her office is because, if you make your own Tamales somehow (do you all use a machine?) or are into this culture of food, bring some for this dentist! I might have stopped by taco bell if I knew she was hungary. She worked so hard all those years in school getting the great grades as an immigrant or child of immigrants from Philippines or Asia or Vietnam with nothing on the boat or plane. She so frail and innocent and tries very hard to be a dentist for maybe 15 or 20 years all the way from California. It's an honor to have a scholarship recipient as a dentist and please, bring her the tamales so she does not have to go with Apple Pay, Venmo or CashApp, Taco Bell's has sales that even law enforcement or whatever can afford so you do not have to make Dr. Angela's six figures to do great!