This company needs investigating. I was a patient for seven years and visited them twice annually for cleanings and had x-rays taken annually. On 1/12/2021, I received a routine cleaning and had a white patch over a recently seated crown. The attending dentist scheduled me to see a periodontist and I saw Orson Baek. He diagnosed me with "aggressive periodontitis" in my chart but never informed me and certainly did not treat me. He asked me three times if I chewed tobacco (WTH?). After the first two times, I was floored. He performed a biopsy (why?) and butchered me pretty badly (see the previous review). Afterward, he did not going to prescribe any pain medication although he cut a sizeable chunk out of my mouth. This entire experience was horrible. The staff at the Lenox Office was very unprofessional. They were loud and laughing raucously next door as I sat not knowing what to expect in anticipation. I had to ask Baek for pain medication. I talk for a living and knew that based on the large portion of tissue he cut and the number of stitches he put in, I would feel the pain in a few hours. He wrote a prescription-only after I asked for one.
I was never treated for "aggressive periodontitis" and to my astonishment, on 11/2021, I was diagnosed with "irreversible pulpitis." Tooth #4 had to be extracted and according to what I have been able to find out on my own (because I contacted Bryan Debowsky in patient relations asking him what happened to me ---- how do you attend the dentist's office annually and end up with fewer and worse teeth? But he never saw fit to contact me back) this was preventable. The next month, tooth #13 was diagnosed with an enlarged socket and also had to be extracted. I would have been better off performing my own dentistry because they certainly didn't do right by me. Now here I am left to remedy the problem of missing teeth and bone loss on my own because Dentfirst is not taking responsibility for its negligence and malpractice.
The American Dental Association produced information online about periodontitis being a degenerative disease. I could have been treated with scaling or planing, but Orson Baek, who professed to be a member of American Academy of Periodontology (BUT ACTUALLY IS NOT). Why would a reputable dentist portray membership in a professional society that they are not members of? Not a good look at all. He also professes to be a member of the American Dental Association (which I am checking into), and Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the academic honors society, but never informed me at all and certainly didn't treat this condition which led to two teeth being extracted. If you are a periodontist, why would you not treat a patient with periodontic disease? Because he did not care about me at all.
I took them to court and because of Georgia Law 24-7-707 (which requires you to bring an expert witness affidavit to court --- HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS, I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY), the judge ruled in their favor.
Avoid Dentfirst. They're not fit. They only care about looking like they are practicing dentistry and not performing as such. They are protected by the criminal justice system and do not care about the public. If you value your teeth and your health, find a reputable dentist and refuse to do business with unprofessional and lackadaisical, well-lawyered dentists. If they wrong you, make sure you pay thousands of dollars to an expert witness for an affidavit before going to court because the legal system is there to protect them. And make sure you trump up thousands or even millions of dollars in damages because most attorneys are not going to represent a case that represents damages that are less than six figures.
No wonder people resort to religion. Sometimes you have to admit that you've been screwed by corporations in Georgia and that the legal system is stacked up against you, even if you are a tax-paying citizen who abides by the rules.
Shame on you Orson Baek for butchering my mouth and not treating me for periodontal disease. Shame on you, Shon Hsu for being cynical when I returned three times for help with the misfitting bottom partial repair you attempted. You're a dentist, not a comedian, do your job. Shame on you Bryan Debowsky for claiming to be a patient relations specialist with Dentfirst and not acknowledging or helping me with this problem.
Although the legal system did not help me, what goes around comes around and Karma is a real thing. read more