So.. My parents scheduled a surprise appointment for me the day before and told me to show up at 2pm today. Hadn't gotten my teeth cleaned for about 2 years due to the change of insurance. My parents come here regularly to get checked up, and said that they were nice here, and I found that they were.
Experience: Staff was friendly, spoke to me in English until they realized I could also speak Chinese. Its a small little place so I think it would be best to call first instead of walking in if you were to come here. Without insurance, they charged me $120 for teeth cleaning, no x-rays. Its a bit expensive, but they did it with one of those sharp hook tool things so its more accurate.. and they spent about an hour to clean too!
They were very gentle while cleaning, also while giving instructions. Made the experience more...acceptable.. since I dont usually like dentist offices in general. The up side to my experience here was that without asking, dr. herbert lin told me what he saw with my teeth and gums, and what I could do to manage it to keep it as healthy as possible. Down side was... that he found a mini cavity!! noooooooooo... :'( tears to my eyes. Since he mainly does periodontics, he didn't have the option to patch it up.. but he was nice enough to write up a little note for where my cavity was for a dentist that does so i could notify them without having them charge me for consultation.
Overall..for a dentist visit, my experience was good. They made my teeth 902385092x cleaner, and was super friendly the whole time.
On a side note, if you can speak both canto and mandarin, pretend like you can only speak one or else they will talk to you in both hahah. The side nurse helper could speak canto more fluently so she was talking to me in cantonese while the dr was talking to me in mandarin.. and so while they were giving me instructions, they were throwing them at me in both languages and i had to flip back and forth to understand. It was okay tho, i found it kinda funny and something to distract myself with while they cleaned. read more