Stay away, unless you want unnecessary dental procedures done. I visited this office twice, six months apart, and the first visit was fine, although the front desk staff always acts put out when checking patients in or out, as if it's a huge inconvenience that they have to put down their phones or interrupt their conversation to do their jobs.
I've never had a filling or a cavity in my life, but when Dr. Wildhaber examined my teeth on the second visit, she said that one of my fillings had fallen out (from the center of a molar, allegedly) and she could get "way up in there" with her tool. I told her that wasn't possible since I'd never had a filling. She backpedaled and said "oh well maybe it was sealant that fell out." Fine, that's possible, I did have sealant put in there many years ago. However, I found it hard to believe that she didn't notice this at our previous visit, and no other dentist had even flagged the area previously to keep an eye on it. She wanted me to schedule a filling on the spot, which I did but pushed it out a few weeks so I'd have time to consider.
I was nervous to have them perform a filling because my boyfriend was in the midst of a terrible experience with this office at the same time. He visited Dr. Wildhaber after not having dental insurance for a couple of years, and she decided that he needed to have some previously done fillings relaced. She replaced three fillings in one quadrant of his mouth, and based on the x-rays, told him that he had extra-large sinuses and therefore would not be able to get root canals, so he should be extra diligent with his teeth. Fast forward a week, and the pain from the filling replacements hadn't subsided. There was also now a huge gap in between two of his molars that wasn't there before, in which food kept getting caught painfully.
After a few weeks, he called them up and they said to come back in and they'll fix the gap and adjust his bite to try to get rid of the pain. At that visit, they did fix the gap, but decided to perform yet another filling replacement, seemingly at random. They adjusted his bite, but after a few more days it became clear that that hadn't fixed the problem. He went back in AGAIN, at which point they said he'll probably need a root canal to fix the problem. No mention of the fact that they previously told him he couldn't even have root canals. They then never sent over the referral even after he followed up. So basically, my boyfriend went from not being in pain and having no noticeable issues with his teeth, to constant pain in the quadrant of his mouth that she worked on.
So, with everything that he'd been through, I decided to get a second opinion before letting her touch my teeth. I went to a very-well-reviewed office in Olympia, explained the whole situation, and after x-rays and a thorough examination, that dentist told me that I didn't have a cavity at all. He was actually outraged that Dr. Wildhaber would recommend a filling. My boyfriend then visited this new dentist as well, and they told him that he likely doesn't need a root canal and they have several things they want to try to alleviate his pain before taking that kind of invasive action.
Needless to say, we cancelled all future appointments at Olympic Dental & Denture. read more
