To express my gratitude and reason for my 5 star, I must tell you a little bit of my story. I seen Dr.Heir in 2011 for an issue that began in 2006. For whatever reason, 3 different dentists were not able to figure out why I was getting ill and why I had a fistula in my lower gums. Uninsured I scrambled for years to find antibiotics when it would swell, it would come more often as the years passed. I had a dentist, who maxed out my benefits in 2 visits a year, for 2 years. Never addressing my mystery issue. By the end of 2010 I was so sick I couldn't even function mentally, visits to the urgent care had become a norm, finally when my benefits rolled over at the beginning of January, I had a CT scan done. Finally I had confirmation I wasn't crazy, I had 2 failing and abscessed root canals. Due to a dark spot on my X-ray, my oral surgeon at the time referred me to an endontist in Vacaville who took more hi tech films and he quoted me $44,000!. I worked retail previously, this isnt even covered under the finest of Dental insurance. My depression dipped lower i was put on Clindamyacin. I inquired with I believe 3 different dentists about getting dentures and I was told I had too many viable teeth that they wouldn't give me dentures. To say I was baffled and confused about my situation was an understatement. No one, not even my Doctors seemed concerned that I was taking this course of antibiotics daily for what would become 2 years. I found a blog post about DR. Heir online, he could've been in New Hampshire for all I knew but by some grace of god he had an office in Yuba city. He also has other office locations in the Sacramento area. Once I was able to secure the funds, or possible funds to proceed, I made an appointment to see him. Dr. Heir too was concerned I may have an issue such as Ostiomyelitis, which he would come to rule out as the dark spots in my films were actually just normal and not what the previous doctor quoting me $44,000 had thought. My story is much more involved than this as along the way I would seem to encounter many a creep and crook in the dental field. Prior to finding Dr. Heir I even had to go above a colonel to get treatment at an airbase teaching hospital, because for some reason unknown to anyone else he didn't like me.
Dr. Heir would go onto take care of my issues in my jaw and placed 3 implants. He and his staff were always kind to me and I actually didn't mind going to my appointments because I would always be asleep during the procedures and they would wake me and walk me out to someone waiting to give me a ride home. If given the option for sedation, its worth every penny. I highly recommend Dr. Heir to anyone especially those who have issues that totally baffle them and the dental "professionals" they visit. Its been a few years since my whole ordeal and I know now if I had been persistent I probably could've found someone willing to give me dentures. If you hope to one day have implants or implant placed dentures on the uppers, do it when or before any teeth are pulled. If you don't you could be looking at twice that in the cost of a sinus lift as bone wastes when you have an extraction and most of the upper teeth are in close proximity to the sinus'. If you also need a dentist as well, right next door to Dr. Heirs Sacramento Surgical Arts is Dr. Munger. Tell them Julie sent you. Lol read more