A total nightmare. I am writing this review 4 years later because the traumatic experience that was…read morethis dentist visit has returned to cause me further pain. When I used this dentist 4 years ago (an East Indian gentlemen whose name I cannot recall) I was under the Obamacare dental insurance plan. The dentist, knowing this, told me after looking at my terribly infected tooth, something along the lines of "these procedures, and things such as novocaine cost a lot money which your insurance does not cover". Then more statements along the lines of "I have to think of my family". I found it to be a really weird statement, and it was quite aggressive how he said it but I just responded politely, with the expectation that the dentist would do the job expected of him. Looking back he was being extremely unprofessional and doing the job either I or the state expected of him when listing him as a obamacare/countrycare linked dentist.
He was very rude and abrasive the entire time and treated me like a second class citizen. Mind you, I am ALWAYS polite, so this wasn't in response to rude, squirmy or indecisive behavior. The worst of it is, he used very very little novacaine. After a couple minutes of EXTREME pain, as he drilled into my infected tooth with what seemed like barely any novocaine. I asked him to use more, which he did, begrudgingly. Even then, it must not have been much, the pain was still extreme.
I have had many dental trips, none have bothered me. I am quite adept at dealing with scraping drilling, or anything else of the like, as long as novocaine is used of course (for the drillling). This Dentist just simply didn't care about the pain he was causing.
I DID think that was the worst of it, because I ignorantly believed that infected tooth/cavity would be healed from said procedure but boy was I wrong. He cleaned the area and gave me a filling on top of it. But even then the dentist said the pain "might" return. The truth is he KNEW that the pain WOULD return, because (what I realize know, that I did not then) is that I needed a root canal, he KNEW that.
Here we are 4 years later, I have EXTREME pain radiating from from the same tooth, all throughout the left side of my face. There is no reason for this, other than the PURPOSEFULLY bad dental work performed by this man (I have take perfect care of my mouth since those days). Now that I can get real insurance I will go see a REAL dentist who will NOT physically TORTURE the person in there chair in order to save money. What he did seemed to be pure classism and wrong. But still, I could have dealt with any sort of rudeness, oh well right? It's the drilling without novocaine, and the intentional covering of a root canal with a filling that gets me upset.
I say avoid the dentist at all cost, he is not a good human being at all.