If you are looking for big money $100,000 to $150,000 full mouth Implants, Crowns or Veneers,…read moreDr.Yudah Ari Brenmergui is the dentist for you. He's a capable dentist with all the latest modern equipment to keep pain to a minimum. But if you require smaller, more modest dental services go elsewhere. From the 1950's to the 1990's, this office was occupied by 2 general dentists, but in their final years, their hands grew shaky, one of them passed away, and the one remaining dentist sold his practice to Dr.Benmergui, then passed away less than a year later. Those dentists were good men, but undoubtedy caused their patients some needless pain with their increasingly obsolete equipment..
I'm realistic: we all have to eat, we all like to make money and all doctors and dentists are in business, but Dr.Benmergiu is in BIG BUSINESS. This is one of several things that you may find off putting about Dr.Benmergui's office. They will tend to want to do a lot of additional uneccessary stuff, and some of their teeth cleaning ladies can be sadistic.
Dr.Benmergui and the ladies who work for him are a combination of orthodox Jewbans and Cubans, and Anglo customers may find it rude that, even though they are all capable of speaking lightly accented English, that the doctor and his assistants will speak entirely in Spanish while working on you. It is, as if they are talking about you behind your back. I didn't take it personally, and at the end, I said "Even if you had spoken English, I still wouldn't understand what you are talking about"(it was all dentist jargon like A2 and B4)
Note: I am not being anti-semetic. I am a secular 3rd generation American of 100% Jewish ethnicity, and I use the term "Jewban" genertically. The doctor is from Venezuela.)
There is no doubt that his emphasis on mega buck dentistry was off-putting and cost the office many customers, and business dropped further during the first 2 years of the pandemic. Dr,Benmergui's office has become increasingly desperate. They've started sending junk e-mails to ex-customers. But now, they've crossed over the line to arrogance: they are scheduling appointments for ex-customers WITHOUT CUSTOMER PERMISSION. How dare they! I won't be there.
As for Dr.Benmergui's emphasis on big money procedures, every customer can't be a lottery win.
In the 1950's a famous bank robber was asked "Why do you rob banks?", and the robber said,"Because that's where the money is". Increasigly, for dentists, "Cosmetic Dentistry" is where the money is. There are no more general dentists; somebody that you could go to to repair one broken tooth. These cosmetic dentists will find the smallest excuse to do $30,000 to $40,000 of uneccessary additional stuff.
