This place is a joke. One of the most horrible dental place to go to. I was there strictly for cleaning. After taking x-rays, the doctor lady told me that base on my x-rays, one of my back tooth needs to be looked at, if not, it may lead to a root canal eventually. I responded telling her that I'm not interested because I never felt pain from the tooth. She continues explaining and proving her recommendations blah blah blah. (keep in mind that this particular visit was my second time there getting my cleaning done. The first time I was there was a year ago also for cleaning, and she told me the same thing about the same tooth). However, she somehow was able to talked me into agreeing to get the tooth worked on. So, her story goes like this: To avoid the root canal which cost likely around $1000, my tooth can avoid the root canal if she opens up the tooth and fill it up with some kind of solutions. Then I go back home for 2 weeks, if I do not feel pain within the 2 weeks, I go back to her, then she'll refill it up with some permanent fillings, then my tooth will be back to normal. But, if she sent me home within that 2 weeks and I do feel any pain, then likely a root canal is needed. This procedure will cost me about $80 after insurance versus the $1000 root canal. So I took the $80 deal. 2 weeks later I returned back to her with NO PAIN at all. She refills it up with the permanent filling. $80 I paid. Business made. I go home. . . . Now, about a month later, the tooth ache like hell! I went back to see her, asking why my tooth ache? She immediately said I will need a root canal. I said to her right away that you told me that I wouldn't need a root canal if I did exactly what you said. She starts to defend herself saying all sorts of things like it was too late to save the tooth. It pisses off more when she said it was too late to save the tooth. I was making my point to her that I was given the impression of me avoiding the root canal if I did exactly what she recommended to go through the fillings procedure with her, and my tooth was healthy with no pain to begin with, and in the end, I ended up with a root canal. One good reason to not go to this dental place, they do not do root canal. They only refer you to a specialist to get a root canal done. You want a doctor that does everything. You don't have time to jump around doctors to get something done. It's like they work on half of your tooth and a different doctor works on the other half.
This is what I feel about this whole situation. I truly believed I was lied to. I truly believed that the moment she opened up my tooth, the tooth probably didn't need the fillings, but she still proceeded. I walked into the office with good insurance and there's no way she was going to have me walk away without breaking her some of my insurance money. That's a dirty business, trained by the owner I guaranteed. If she was a normal person, she'll used this scenario as a life lesson. You don't pressure anyone to do anything when there's a chance later for you to be accountable for. This is exactly what I told her. She could have just warned me instead of pressuring me. If I choose to not do what she recommended, let me be accountable for not believing her. Let me blame me, not her! Now that my tooth needs a root canal, I blamed her. I told her this.
I don't need the owner to comment on this zero-star review. There's no way the owner will undo everything. There's no way the owner will pay for the root canal. So I suggest the dirty owner stay out of this review. My co-workers and my social media circle is aware of this dental place now. Trust me, if I could take this to the local news I would. I walked into this dental place in peace, that's why this situation bothers me so much. read more