I've spent nearly $35,000 in the past 20+ years. I had a Delta dental plan for most of the time. Besides cleanings and fillings, I had Partials, precision snap in partials, a bridge crown cluster upper. I did everything I could to keep my teeth clean, using floss threaders and a water pic in addition to brushing. I couldn't go a year without something extreme happen. Always a dying tooth under a crown. After a 6 month checkup, at home that night using floss threaders, the floss passed through from one tooth to the other on my lower crown cluster with 5 teeth on. Clearly a rotted tooth but it wasn't noticed by the hygienist. After some time i decided after nearly 20 years, to seek a second opinion by a specialist who told me my teeth were falling apart under the crowns because they were not made right, not close enough to the gum and therefore the teeth were exposed causing a slow and extremely expensive death. I could write all night on here of the anguish and the agony I was put through, but one of the worst experiences I had was being sent by this dentist to a surgeon to remove my bottom teeth and the surgeon did so WITHOUT gloves on. I hadn't noticed until he was finishing up, and being traumatized by the whole experience it didn't register until I was home. I told Rakowsky the next day, so he called the surgeon and the surgeon admitted to it, saying in his defense, he sometimes forgets to putting them on moving from room to room. Four years later I lost all my uppers. What's really interesting is the amount of money they bill the insurance company, especially for the dentures. The first set of immediate lower dentures I had made looked like something you'd buy at the Halloween store and the insurance company was billed nearly $3,000; what you'd expect to pay for premium. I was on the hook for most of that. They were so bad, poor fit dark in color and glue marks. They were embarrassing. I insisted immediately that they be remade, and on that occasion they were. Same goes for the uppers 4 years later. All my teeth are gone and all the partials, bridges and crowns I've purchased over the years are in the trash. Friends of mine and others over the years would tell me to stop going to him but I remained loyal and trusted him like a fool. I would come on Yelp occasionally to check if anyone had written a review on this cl*wn, and there never was a single review. I thought for sure I couldn't be the only one that took issue with him, and if he was soo good at what he does, why isn't anyone praising him in the over 30 years he's been a dentist. So my recommendation is a definite No. You'd be better off going anywhere but here. read more
