The staff at Dr. Anderson's office is decent. They are making the best of what I imagine is a hostile work environment, between dealing with Dr. Anderson and with unhappy patients, their job must be rough.
The crown I had done never did fit right. Even when fitting the temporary cap, I kept telling him it had high spots. He chose to send the mold off anyway, and guess what....the permanent crown also had high spots. Imagine that.
He cemented it in, and I complained of high spots. He made adjustments, I told him it was still high. He told me the blue tape showed good contact.
Dr. Anderson gets this tension in him that is intimidating, and I was scared frankly, so I went home. Upon really thinking about it, I realized....yes, the crown has good contact, but the teeth other side of my mouth didn't even meet because the crown was so high!
He didn't floss my crown, so when I tried to floss that night, I could NOT force the floss in.
I went back the next day to try again. He said he didn't know why I couldn't floss. He had flossed it just fine. (HE HAD NOT, but I wasn't going to piss him off while I was laying prone in his chair.) He had a devil of a time getting the floss through.
I told him it was high, and he snarkily said, "Fine, I'll grind it down below the other teeth" (paraphrasing). And he started grinding. He didn't advise me that sometimes you can imagine a high spot on a crown when it's really other teeth, he just started grinding. And he jammed his mirror under my tongue (I think on purpose....but that's my interpretation).
Oh, and his staff will quote you "zero" out of pocket for your treatment plan, and then you will get a bill in the mail. So plan on that.
The crown: it's livable at best. It barely touches when I bite, but it's better than the alternative where it pounded against the opposing tooth. read more