DR. NEGAR MESSED UP MY TEETH!!! I went to Palm Dental Smiles 3 years ago and was recommended to get my teeth strengthened at the root because I grind my teeth at night. While she did a good in that aspect, she said teeth tend to shift in this procedure and she placed a thin film for me to bite down on. She said "grind, grind, grind" as a way of examining the contact points between my teeth. She then went ahead and shaved the right side of my teeth. Allowing her to do that was ONE OF MY BIGGEST REGRETS EVER!!!
Suddenly, my bite felt crooked after that and she recommended shaving the left side of my teeth to "even it out". However, after doing so it still felt off. She kept saying shaving only takes off a tiny amount of tooth enamel, but that's completely false. The shaving tool whirs at a fast rate and A LOT of tooth enamel is shaved. My bite kept getting worse and worse as she repeated the shaving of both my left and right sides another 2x, until I realized in horror... MY LOWER FRONT TEETH WERE HITTING MY UPPER FRONT TEETH!!! There were gaps on the left and right side of my teeth!!! This made it extremely uncomfortable as my teeth were not even and settled like before.
Then, she asked me to bite on that thin film again and said "grind, grind, grind" but what I kept telling her (and what she doesn't understand) is that if I grind my jaw far left and far right, it will lead to full contact points on the film. Grinding on the film in that way is misleading and different than biting down straight without moving the teeth around. The problem now is that when my teeth try to settle, they don't touch evenly all around like they used to, only the front teeth touch, which is a horrible and unsettling feeling.
As a result, when more pressure is placed on my lower front teeth, it applies pressure to all my other teeth, even causing 2 of my side teeth to rotate and are now permanently crooked! I also now get sore gums and jaw muscles as a result of this constant shifting in my front lower teeth. Imagine if your front lower teeth lean inward because of the pressure and force pressed down from your upper teeth because that's the first and only point of contact. It's been a horrible 3 years, it's uncomfortable, it's distracting, and it occupies my mind quite a bit.
Did I go to her to resolve the issue? Of course I did, but this is what happened. I returned about a year ago after she refused to shave my front lower teeth. She explained that over time my teeth would adjust. No Dr. Negar, they didn't and still haven't adjusted as there was too much shaving and the gaps on the left and right side of my teeth are too big. I would even sleep without my retainer in hopes that my teeth grinding at night would force my front lower teeth to lean inward so much that everything else would adjust. But it doesn't. When I returned to her office and asked her to fix it again, I was extremely upset and distraught because at that time it was becoming more painful as I was allowing my teeth to grind at night. Her response? She said SHE WOULD ONLY SHAVE MY LOWER FRONT TEETH IF ANOTHER DOCTOR RECOMMENDED IT.
So, she sent me to a Dr. Kovak (I may be spelling it wrong) who examined my teeth. He said that since I have such "virgin teeth" (not sure what that even means) that it's best not to shave jt. He said that my bite will always shift since I grind so I just have to live with it. I kept telling him that my entire life I've never experienced uncomfortable gums and jaw muscle aches or shifting teeth (except when I got braces at age 16) until Dr. Negar shaved both sides of my teeth. Like her, he said to just live with it. Needless to say I didn't go back to tell Dr. Negar because the pandemic struck and honestly, what was the point trying to convince her again? She was just going to refuse me as she always did, especially after telling me she would only shave the front of my teeth if Dr. Kovak approved of it.
I'm sure her other services are safe to do like teeth cleanings and what not, but please, under no circumstances... DO NOT LET HER SHAVE YOUR TEETH!!! You will regret it and live with an uneven bite and uncomfortable gum and jaw muscle aches like me. It's been a terrible experience.
Since I have to live with uncomfortable teeth as a result of her butchering my teeth, she will have to live with my bad Yelp review.
If she reaches out and offers to fix my teeth and it actually corrects the problem, then I will remove this post. I don't like negatively affecting a persons business, but she did negatively affect my teeth. I even waited 3 years to write this, hoping my teeth would adjust, but if course, they didn't. read more