Horrible experience!!
I went to Modern Touch about a year ago, because I heard an advertisement on the radio that they would put you under when you had work done. I have had a lot of dental issues, including braces, headgear, removed teeth, etc, when I was very young, so the dentist has always been a frightful place for me. On my first visit, not two minutes after looking into my mouth the dentist told me I needed to have my wisdom teeth removed. In order to have my braces, four of my teeth were pulled when I was a teenager (before my wisdom teeth came in) and I have two permanent retainers that have kept all my teeth in place. My orthodontist has told me I wouldn't need to have my wisdom teeth removed, since they had grown in straight and hadn't crowded anything. When I told the Modern Touch dentist this, her explanation was that since one of them already had a cavity, the rest were going to get cavities too so it would be best to pull them all out. I responded with if we were going to use that logic, then they might as well pull all my teeth. She obviously wasn't expecting me to object, and brushed past the "recommendation" as if it didn't matter. It was clear that she was just recommending I get them pulled so she could get the payout from the oral surgeon I would go to, regardless of the needless pain and money on my part.
That should have been my first clue.
I knew before going in that I would have cavities - I have very weak enamel, and it doesn't matter what I do I always get them. Some of my teeth have been bothering me, and I told her which ones but she insisted that four of my other teeth needed immediate attention. Fine, I took her advice, and I made the appointment - not knowing that the four teeth she was talking about were on every side of my mouth. One on the right bottom, one of the left bottom, one on the top right, one on the top left. So that meant that they numbed my entire mouth. I was afraid I was going to swallow my tongue, I couldn't feel anything. And she put a vice in my mouth to keep it open, too uncomfortably large for me, which I tried to tell her but obviously couldn't. And when I'd relax enough to make it bearable, she'd twist it open further even though tears were falling down my face and I was gripping the chair so hard it made my hands hurt. And if that wasn't bad enough, I could still feel all the drilling - no one ever asked me if I wanted to be put under - and my teeth and jaw hurt for days afterwards. My bite didn't line up either, and apparently this is standard practice for them since the person in the chair next to me was there for a readjustment of her bite after a filling. I've been to a fair few dentists before, and I have never had to go back to have my bite fixed. Needless to say, I never went back to Modern Touch, and I let my teeth smooth themselves out - which wasn't the best course of action I know, but I couldn't bring myself to go back to that terrible place. I couldn't believe what a horrible experience this was!! read more