We've been patients for 2 years now and come every 6 months. This was my daughters 5th filling here. She struggles with a bit of nerves with the dentist. She was just diagnosed with high functioning autism. I shared our diagnosis with the dentist last week. When we left yesterday I was informed that the doctor would no longer see my daughter. Even though she has almost always worked on her and her behavior at this visit was consistent with previous visits. . Her behaviors were typical of a nervous child and the appointment was finished in less than an hour. It was very disappointing that they decided after sharing her diagnosis that she could only be seen by a specialist. It seems the doctor expects only calm and compliant children in her chair. For those questioning how "bad" her behaviors were, she whined a bit during and was nervous for the gummy chair. After they let her feel it which took 1 extra minute she let them proceed. Once the doctor started the filling my daughter laid still and did not resist at all. The only thing she did was whine a bit. No yelling, screaming, running, hitting, kicking or pushing their hands away. I did have to give her some reassurance during the X-ray as well, but again it took maybe 1 extra minute of time.
We walked back into the exam room at 4:20 and were walking out by 4:50.
I will also add at her cleaning two weeks prior the assistant was rather impatient with her. I had to inform her of my daughters diagnosis and then her tone changed and she became much more pleasant and positive with my daughter. Which I found weird as this is a pediatric dentist so they should be positive from the get go.
For any parents of nervous kids, or kids with Autism this is NOT the dentist for you. read more
