As unprofessional a bedside manner as I have ever seen! As I'm waiting in the chair having yet to meet the guy, I see my X-ray on the counter so I'm leaning over to get a look. I put my glasses on to see better but since I'm wearing a mask they fog up so I pull the mask down under my nose a bit. About now he comes walking in humming nonchalantly - which strikes me as rather unprofessional - and, instead of introducing himself he immediately starts arguing with me about the proper way to wear a mask! Basically he's chewing my tail ... as if he were going to have me leave it on while he works! A real fine how-do-you-do. Yeah, nice to meet you too buddy. Next, I've never had a tooth pulled and, believe it or not, I'm not really excited about this. I'm hoping for a last minute 2nd opinion just to be reassured that this really IS necessary (I was assured this by the receptionist when I first called 2 weeks ago) and his answer was basically "your dentist sent you here so it must be that it has to be pulled"! Thanks buddy. Now the needle! Every time I've had novocaine they first give you a Q-tip with a pre-numbing agent and let it soak in for a couple minutes. I was rather amazed and appalled that all he did was take that goop, splotched it on in 2 places in my mouth like he was painting something and immediately followed with the needle. I mean, the stuff is supposed to take a few minutes to work, you know! So the first jab of the needle sure wasn't fun but then comes the one to the roof of the mouth. "This one might sting a little" he says. Well no kidding ... YEOW!! His response is "Oh be a man!" At about this point I was just about ready to transform him into "not a man"! Following that the extraction actually went fairly well and not as bad as I'd expected, obviously he's done it before and knows what he's doing. Then he brags to me how in 35 years he's "literally done 1/4 MILLION extractions"!! Do the math. That's 20/day, every single day for 35 years. Obviously he's full of crap and likes to exaggerate a little too. Suffice it to say, I'll never be back to this class-less butcher. Rude, unprofessional, arrogant, and obviously doesn't give a rat's tail about his patients! read more