I have never had good dentists. there was my cousin who i went to for an appointment and found the office closed with a single admin lady packing boxes - he never notified me. My childhood dentist tried to make me wear something called a bionator which was like half retainer half muzzle and then headgear. i didn't wear either and my bite is barely off. I went to see Dr. Grant because the most dentist I ever had, a Dr. Barbosa, had given me a root canal with a crown way too big for my mouth and i had been in pain for a long time and needed an implant. His manner was very brisk, condescending, and - this is coming from someone who had 4 impacted wisdom teeth taken out and woke up with a black eye and had tattoos on my spine and achilles - he is ROUGH. Also every time i go there i say "don't use the Novocane with epinephrine (I take a large dose of Adderall for narcolepsy and the combo could do serious damage) and every time it's "yes yes we know it's in your file calm down" but the one time i didn't say anything i got epinephrine, thought i was having a panic/heart attack, sweating, gagging, and he was laughing at me saying i need to tell them every time and it was my fault. Also, my flipper stopped fitting and i brought it in to ask him to adjust it. instead he told me not to wear it for the next three months (this is already after i asked him if i could just have a tooth temp cemented in like i saw on The Doctors and he cemented the flipper which lasted a week or two) so i had to go 3 months with a canine missing. When i finally received my implant, i mentioned to him for the 4th or 5th time that the root canal on the other side of my mouth had been bothering me lately. he took an x-ray and said it was either infected or had scar tissue and never got around to actually checking it out. i want to give him the benefit of the doubt but it makes me want to go to a dentist i know is in it for the patient and not the $ (they charge so much and ive NEVER seen more DISGUSTING waiting room chairs in my life!!) b/c I'm afraid he's been purposely ignoring me for the past year so it'll get to the point where i need another implant, which won't happen, i'll just be the girl with the denture. So yes, i'm going to get my teeth cleaned b/c i signed up for a discount yearly thing one last time in dec and then I've decided to switch to another dentist: smaller staff, friendlier, more into comfort than aesthetic. btw, is it normal for my implant to hurt and be grey at the top? I dont e end want to know... read more