In short, my experience with them indicates incompetence, outright fraud, or both, which nearly cost me thousands of dollars in unnecessary fillings on 15 of my teeth. I do not exaggerate. I cannot stress this enough. Stay away, or you might spend up to thousands of dollars on fillings that you don't need at all. My last, very thorough description was rejected by Yelp so I am shortening it significantly while trying to keep the important information.
I came in as a new patient, having not been to a dentist in several years. After the checkup was over, I was told I had cavities on 28 surfaces across 15 teeth, and was showed the "cavities" on the X-Rays. I was told fillings for all of these would be $3442. They were very cordial, both during the visit and over the phone later when I double-checked this diagnosis with the hygienist.
Naturally, I was stunned, and wanted a second opinion. I shortly thereafter went to a trusted family-friend dentist who did a checkup and was clear that I had at most one cavity brewing in one wisdom tooth, but that was it. Several months later, I found a different, local dentist (now my current dentist) who examined my mouth and found no cavities. I should add that both this dentist and my family friend looked at the very same X-Rays that were taken by Downtown Dental Studio, and they both said there were no cavities apparent from the X-Rays. The X-Ray "cavities" that were shown to me at Downtown Dental apparently were just artifacts of the photo - not actually cavities.
If the second and third opinions weren't enough, it has now been over 3 years, and I have developed only two cavities since then: one of which was the wisdom-tooth that was "brewing". I hadn't gotten a cleaning/checkup in at least 1.5 years, so that probably didn't help. None of the other "cavities" found by Downtown Dental have caused me any pain or trouble of any kind, so I think it is safe to say they didn't exist.
In summary, if I had trusted Downtown Dental Studio, I would currently have fillings in 15 of my teeth (or, at the very least, 13 teeth) that I don't need, and would have spent thousands of dollars to do so. Again, I do not wish to slander anyone, so I am not making anything up or exaggerating. I still have my records from the incident which I just checked, so I am not going off of faulty memory regarding the numbers. read more