Good manners prevent me from saying what I really wish, so I will simply state the facts of my case. I saw the dentist at the Allheart Dental in Red Oak, David Xiao, on 11/19/2019. It was the same day the building was hit by a car; my appointment was literally right after that happened. I was placed in an examination room with a partially-collapsed wall from the impact. My child was placed in the neighboring examination room. I was later moved.
The floors were dirty and had trash and discarded dental implements scattered about. Each examination room I saw looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a while. All of the hand sanitizer stations I found were empty (mind you, this was before COVID). The bathroom had no hand soap and was out of toilet paper. There were not more of either item in adjacent bathroom storage. This office wasn't just having a "bad day" but was systemically dirty. The staff did not seem to care when I mentioned any of these things.
My child and I had cleanings performed and I had a broken molar prepped to receive a crown. I made a partial payment for this crown, but after reflecting on my experience, I did not want to go back to this office. I started communicating with the Allheart Dental in Grand Prairie and requested a follow-up appointment there instead, because the temporary cap that David Xiao installed fell off almost immediately. I spoke with the staff there about my experience and emphasized that I did not want to return to the Red Oak office. I requested that their office coordinate with David Xiao about a refund of my partial payment for the crown. Months passed and I was told repeatedly that the Grand Prairie office either spoke with him directly about the issue and instructed him to contact me, or left messages reminding him that the issue was unresolved. He never contacted me.
I finally went back to the Red Oak office and spoke with David Xiao directly. He made a big show out of appearing surprised, saying that the Grand Prairie office had never spoken to him about the incident or my request for a refund and that he had no idea what I was talking about. He said he would get back to me with numbers for a refund. He did not. More months passed. If I called and left a message with the Red Oak office, he never returned them. He started having his staff tell me he wasn't in the office when I called, but when I showed up to request copies of my paperwork, he was sitting right there at the front desk. He would turn away and pretend not to see me, or get up and leave with a pretense of suddenly being busy. He did this more than once. At one point he told me the girl who'd been handling my case had been fired, so he had no records of anything we'd spoken about, even though I'd spoken on the phone with her half an hour before and she'd recognized me immediately.
It has been a year and a half now and David Xiao has refused at every step to communicate with me like a professional doctor, much less a decent or forthright person, and has been financially and intellectually dishonest. He has made no attempt to issue my refund and I finally contacted my insurance company to inform them of the circumstances, because they also paid for a product/service that I still haven't received. Frankly, I do not trust his office to administer care with any real regard for the cleanliness of their location or for the safety of their patients, and I would not recommend any person that I cared about to their services. read more