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Seems I sent my review with the wrong email and Dr. Waked had it removed. Luckily I expected he would try to have it removed as he has done to others, so I screen shotted it. Here it is in its entirety with my correct yelp email. I have a mentally ill adult daughter who needed a couple of years worth of dental work. We saw doctor Waked during this time because of the Yelp reviews. I even went to him for my check ups. When you have an adult mentally disabled daughter, it's sometimes hard to find doctors who will take their behavior into consideration and not expect them to be adults when they have the cognitive ability or a child. I love Jenniter at the office statt-she understood because she too has a special needs child. So, the gist of it is, we saw Dr. Waked for almost two years as her teeth are in terrible condition from years of medical treatment for both her mental and physical disabilities. Her teeth will randomly break off. She had complained about his chairside manner from the beginning.. bordering on verbal abuse. So I went to him for my cleaning. Again, Jennifer was awesome and since I didn't have insurance, she even got me signed up with a free plan that paid some of my expenses But I too experienced his horrible attitude and his rudeness to the patients. Plus, when I was done with my cleaning my teeth still felt dirty and it was so fast that I've never experienced such a poorly done cleaning. I later had to have a tooth removed and he immediately jumps to implants. I don't want implants, I would have been happier with a cap, but he just took the whole thing out and never discussed with me what I wanted. So now ljust have a missing molar. I think he's a technically good (not great) dentist, but either his practice is too busy and he needs to bring in another dentist to help him, or he just hates his job. We kept going there because my daughter as part of her mental disease does not tolerate change well and because a known danger is better than a perceived danger in her mind. They also offered nitrus for her because she is very anxious around men from being kidnapped when she was a child. The office knew all of this before she started seeing Dr. Waked. Well, she saw him twice in the last 6 weeks--both for teeth that broke off. The second to last time she told him she could still teel the paln (I Can attest myselt that he Is stingy with the local anesthesia when pulling teeth), and he told her that maybe she should see a pediatric dentist in the future. This really hurt her psyche and I called and talked to Jennifer about what he said and told her that I understood, and if he felt she really needed to see a pediatric dentist, to just let us know where a good one would be and we would happily leave. I didn't want her to continue to be berated by Dr. Waked any more. I felt we were bevond tolerant. Then, when she came in again, she once again had the nitrous-which I pay extra for. Dr. Waked got mad and felt she was "drug seeking." Really? For nitrous? This is a kid with a musculoskeletal disease that requires her to take actual morphine each day for the last 20 years. Nitrous does nothing but calm her nerves to deal with this verbally abusive dentist. He then came out and announced to the entire waiting room for Jennifer to NOT schedule her anymore because she was too difficult a patient. I was furious, but it wasn't Jennifer's fault. Dr. Waked cannot handle special needs patients. He verbally abuses them and doesn't seem to understand that some patients are very scared of him due to the way he treats them. I would absolutely stay away from this practice if you have a neurodivergent loved one or you want someone to actually discuss your course of treatment BEFORE they remove things from your mouth that they can't put back. To be fair, I think he has the technical knowledge, but the caring aspect is completely lacking and he seems to just go from patient to patient with a certain number or minutes in nis mina to get his work done witnour concern tor the actuar patient. i think nes Tine for adults who don't care if they get a say in their treatment or not. DR WAKED'S: ORIGINAL REPLY: Dec 15. 2025. "Thank you Sandy (a HIPPA Violation since I am a patient also) for your review, we have been constantly yelled at, cursed at, mistreated by your daughter for years without a complaint, last appointment was unacceptable and asked her not to come back." (At this point I have the rest of his comment on my work computer which I don't have access to at this moment but will update--but the gist of it was that he questioned me about discussing this on a public forum and said he would happily discuss it with me in person. The entire reason I used an alternate Yelp email was because this one was my regular Yelp divulges my entire name and for HIPPA reasons And Patient Shames her for her mentaI disability. My ORIGINAL Response: to Dr. Waked's Reply: Screen shots shown below because I ran out of room.

My 9 year old boy is a champ and Dr Waked is a pro
Israel G.

This is an excellent dental office. Friendly, clean, efficient, up-to-date. Conveniently located in the Albertsons shopping center in between Albertsons and Giovanni's Pizza. Dr. Emile Waked trained in Paris, France and at UCLA and subsequently taught for a number of years at UCLA as well. He is kind and thorough. Some dentists will do unnecessary work. Not here. Come in and see the difference!

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I had my first appointment today. It was great. They were very nice and helpful and Windy did my X-Rays, she was very good

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5 years ago

Unnecessarily replaced two crowns. Couldn't get the height of the new crowns correct. Very bad experience.

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The fact that I was reached out to and the dr is just amazing. I truly believe orcutt couldn't ask for a better dentist in the area.

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14 years ago

Smiles on Clark is the BEST! The Dentist and staff are so friendly and are really good with nervous patients like me! :)

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15 years ago

Great dentist, very nice office, best staff.

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I have continued to see Dr Waked even after he left UCLA and established his own practice in Orcutt.

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