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    My experience led to many months of pain & eventual loss of tooth. I went to get my fillings done in multiple appointments & noticed I came out with pain & it kept getting worse. I was assured that it was normal so I trusted the staff here. I couldn't even eat like a normal person anymore because it would be so painful to even bite down. I had to walk around with an ice pack on my face & would get horrible migraines. I would mention it to Dr. Phan but she assured me that is was normal & would she would end up grinding down my fillings to correct the bite. So I googled my symptoms & to what I found I was showing signs of pulpitis/infection. I went in again specifically for the pain because it kept getting worse & I had mentioned my theory but was laughed at. I was assured I didn't have pulpitis/infection. So I trusted again! All my teeth, jaw, face & head hurt so bad!!! this went on for months & remember agonizing in pain on the floor. I wondered when this would go away. I tried what was recommended which was an expensive mouth guard that only made the pain worse & I went in to also do a fluoride treatment on my teeth as was recommended to help the pain. NOPE IT DIDN"T!!! When I went to buy the mouth guard the cashier asked me why I had Ice on my face & I told her & she bet me it was an infection. She was familiar with them so she was very convinced based on my symptoms & even recommended I go to her her dentist instead. I was breaking down because the pain was so bad & my body would shake from the pain. I am not big on pills at all so I tried to avoid the scary narcotics pills for pain ( a bit of pill/med phobia) but I did end up forced to take lots of advil. There was many nights I COULDN'T SLEEP FROM THE PAIN!! So after many months of this I finally went to another dentist (Day 1) where they immediately diagnosed me with pulpitis/infection. They gave me antibiotics & strong pills for the pain but I wanted Dr. Phan's opinion again so I went to her right away (day 2) & she assured me I didn't have an infection/pulpitis. She said there was no need for me to take the antibiotics! She grinded down my fillings again & had one of the worst nights of my life in the most severe pain ever! I was crying all night in pain & agonizing! So my hubby took me to an emergency dentist the next day (day3) & the 3rd dentist diagnosed me right away with pulpitis/infection. She immediately started a root canal but the infection was so bad that after approx 4 hours she couldn't finish & found complications. She said the infection had been sitting there for months!!! She had to postpone the rest of my root canal. There was so much puss I could smell the disgusting stuff & tasting it. The pain was so bad & I had to keep taking advils because I was still too afraid to take the bigger scarier pills even though I probably should of based on the horrible pain. To this day I haven't touched those big pain pills. My face was more swollen, my jaw had a mass that was swollen too. I just wanted all the puss/infection gone so I could have pain relief. I went in for second part of root canal but again there was complications & they couldn't finish. I sat there for hours while the anesthetic no longer wanted to work on me so I began to feel the tools going into my nerves. I was crying out in severe pain so they had to send me to a specialist. The specialist said there was no saving this tooth & that indeed the infection was there for months. They tried to numb my tooth but found complications too because they called it a hot tooth that couldn't get numb. After many tries they finally numbed it enough to at least proceed. I watched little pieces of my tooth being taken out 1by1. They showed me the xrays before and after of the infection & how it was finally gone though I still had to continue the antibiotics. I was so happy it was finally out & was finally crying happy tears though the pain was very bad when the anesthetics faded. It seemed like a miracle but it was definitely a traumatic experience & hate to see dentist offices to this day. It is sad I had to suffer so many many months & the expensive bills & loss of my tooth not to mention trauma. The rest of the pain disappeared after my gum healed. Unfortunately I have trouble eating because I can't afford to get a new tooth & have a lot of bone loss now. Since I was already missing 2 teeth on both sides of the top do to not being able to afford root canal many years ago It makes it harder to chew on the side that is missing 2 teeth vs the one but I only have a couple teeth that work to chew so I fear I will end up getting another infection there since it is the only side I can use. My teeth are so messed up that I bite my cheeks often. The other 2 different dentist I went to showed me on the xrays what infections look like & how they could see it. So there was 3 days straight that I went to 3 different dentist including Dr.Phan in the middle. The others seen infection but she didn't

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    Wonderful dentist office with great service. Dr. Phan is very kind and takes great care of her patients.

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    Great customer service! The entire staff was so friendly and thorough. I'm so glad I found a good dentist!

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    Always quick, in and out for a cleaning in half an hour. Love the staff and Dr. Phan!

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