OMG where do I start. This Dr. Excuse me I mean Dentist is fairly new to me. It was explained to me months back that I would need some fillings because I have three cavities that needed (OK I thought,fine). As he is doing one out of the three he tells me "ONE is really deep and that he isn't in the BUSINESS of pulling teeth he wants to save them. That in the future I will need work done, but the fillings should hold for now. Future came last week, tooth killing me. I come in for a cleaning, telling him of the issues of pain I'm having. He tells me I need a root canal which will be $1,700. I don't know about you, but I don't have that kind of money. I had just found out I'm prego with my second child. I'm advised to go for a loan and the he can make the call to see if I can get approved. When I get approved for the $1,500 he tells me he needs to take a second look at my x-rays and that he may need to do more than one tooth. To my shock he tells me I need two teeth done. He tries showing me the x-ray as if I went to college to be a dentist and I know what I'm looking at. ( I yes him because you don't think right off that you should question you Dr. Excuse me Dentist especially when your in pain). He rushes to his receptionist to tell her to see if I will get approved for $3,400. (of course it was already processed and they said no to another loan. So he says to myself and my fiance "Oh don't worry about it, you got approved for $1,500, that means you have somewhat good credit. I know how it is, just make the appoint. (he was even insisting that I stayed right then and there) Will do the work and you will have no more pain and we can work out a payment plan for like 6 months to pay off what you owe. I was pissed about it costing so much and me having to take out a loan and to boot have to still pay him for not one but two teeth all of a sudden that needs to get done. I come in, he starts complaining about me not being tough enough because he keeps having to give me shots of pain meds in my gum. (mind you I'm prego and it was already explained that the only med that can be giving to me will wear of about every 30 mins so I would need more shots than average). FUCKING PAINFUL! Is taking it likely, but I pushed on he was rough, he didn't really have patients and got anoid when I complained of pain. After the actual root canal he put this gray seal over my teeth and brought in paper work and told me we were taking a break to go handle the business end of the matter. So in pain and confused I go to the front and he tells me you were only approved for $1,500 that only covered the root canal which was $700 a tooth you have $100 left over which went to the seal process if you want to finish and get caps and crowns I'm gonna need $300 for the seal that I already started because it is $200 a tooth and that is what you owe me. I will need now or you can come back in 6 months or so with $800 to do your caps and crowns then we can work out a payment plan. "oh but don't take to long because that defeats the purpose and you may need to have them pulled anyway" I liked to hit the floor. I really didn't know what to say or do. I called my fiance to get the $300 dollars when we realized that we would have just been forking up money and he still wouldn't have completed my month. Thank God he thought that he may have been able to get more money out of me and he went ahead and did the seal, if not he would have sent me home with two exposed nerves with just a temp seal. May may have caused big issues if it broke and got infected (mind you I'm prego, you think he care) Before I could get off the phone he was taking off my little napkin from around my neck and damn near shoving me out the door. I asked him in the mean time what should I do for pain being I'm prego he said ask you Dr. I said that I would return in 3 days with partial payment and he wouldn't even turn around to see me out the door nor say good bye. I left in extreme pain and feeling taking advantage of because I was lied to, this is Embezzlement. I had to have my fiance go up there and talk to him in the professional manor he failed to show me. After whatever went down now he's gonna honor what he originally said and complete the process and I will be on a payment plan for $1,900 on top of the $1,500 dollar loan I had to take out after everything is all said and done. I almost don't even trust going back to his damn office but I'm fucked because I'm still in pain, my insurance won't cover it and I can't take out another loan to go to someone else that would have to finish his unfinished work. I will let him finish and if he fucks up my teeth, I'm taking him to court. After my root canals are completely done this time. I will pay him because I don't want my credit messed up and he won't ever have to worry about seeing my face or anyone I know again. If I had did more research before going through with this ordeal he would have never got my business. read more