So to be VERY clear! I am NOT a frequent flyer at the dentist office! I've never even had so much as a cavity in my 30+ years of living! No braces growing up NOTHING! outside of yearly cleanings and X-rays. I'm basically a catholic saint when it comes to teeth. However I was horrified to find out I had to have ALL 4 of my wisdom teeth removed last year during my routine yearly cleanings and x-ray exam with my regular dentist. For YEARS I had a very good dentist who told me "hey if they don't bother you, you don't bother them" type deal with my wisdom teeth. So after seeing a new dentist he told me I had NO CHOICE, but to have them removed because they were pushing against my other teeth and 1 wisdom tooth was already impacted! I was referred to some young hot shot know it all dentist who had all kinds of fancy drone shots of his dental practice in Norwalk plastered all over his website. Well suffice to say Mr. hot shot dentist literally wasted 2 hours of my time, $500.00 dollars in a consultation fee and some fancy over the top additional NOT COVERED by insurance 3D X-ray. He told me there was no way he could remove all 4 of my wisdom teeth he could MAYBE at BEST remove 3 and I would likely experience more pain than I had ever experienced in my life and possible nerve damage in my jaw and face. If I wanted to be put to sleep the extraction would have to be done in A HOSPITAL! because for whatever reason he was afraid to give me anesthesia in his office. On top of a dental bill well OVER $2500 dollars WITH insurance. The guy was a real bozo! I left that dentist office crying, petrified, and confused as to what to do next!
A friend referred me to Dr. Sciarrino! He took ONE look at my BASIC covered by insurance X-rays shrugged his shoulders and said I'll have ALL 4 of these wisdom teeth out in 90 minutes you go home come back in a week I'll take the stitches out and you'll never see me again! Pain? What pain? You see all these medical degrees on my wall! Never mind those! In all his years of practice he's never had someone experience excessive pain or complications from his wisdom teeth removal. As perfect and straight as my teeth are my wisdom teeth were no walk in the park! I had 1 impacted, 1 on its way to being impacted, with nerves going through it. The other two were easy removals. I don't even think Dr. Sciarrino asked me if I wanted to proceed with his services or not he just smiled walked me to the front desk had one of the ladies schedule me in and said see you in a month and by the way get a COVID Test before you come here for surgery because ain't nobody got time for that! I paid my bill in full with the office a week before surgery I was told the cost it would be ahead of time so I planned out my finances accordingly and the cost to Dr. Sciarrino was a little over $1,000 bucks and that was only because of the anesthesia! Most if not all dental insurance plans do not cover anesthesia! I do not like pain or any kind of discomfort. I told Dr. Sciarrino during the surgery prep I wanted whatever the stuff was that Michael Jackson got PLUS TAX! None of that laughing Gas, awake, but not awake, twilight stuff! if I ended up playing checkers with Michael Jackson in the day room of Heaven then so be it I wanted to feel No pain! Dr. Sciarrino removed all my wisdom teeth, sent me home with directions and the basic pain and antibiotic prescriptions! I didn't even take the pain killers. Extra strength Tylenol was more then enough to keep me comfortable I had NO excessive bleeding, NO excessive pain nor discomfort! I went back a week later had the stitches taken out and true to his word I haven't seen him since! The most annoying part of this whole process was I couldn't eat my Sourdough Nibbler Pretzels for 2 months after the surgery while the extraction sites healed.
I say all of that to say if you have to beg, borrow, and steal to find the money to see Dr. Sciarrino then you do just that! Dip into your kids college funds, refinance your house whatever you need to do just get to Dr. Sciarrino and do not waste your time or money with any other dentist! It's Dr. Sciarrino or nothing at all! read more